Windows file access performance compared to Linux
I remember this issue (I commented in it a few years ago).<p>On the bright side, WSL as a development environment is no longer slow when it comes to real world usage. I&#x27;ve been using it for full time web app development for the last year and even made a video about my entire set up and configuration a week ago[0].<p>For example with WSL you can easily get &lt;= 100ms code reloads even through a Docker for Windows volume on really big applications with thousands of files, such as a Rails app.<p>Even compiling ~200kb of SCSS through a few Webpack loaders (inside of Docker with a volume) takes ~600ms with Webpack&#x27;s watcher. It&#x27;s glorious.<p>I haven&#x27;t had a single performance issue with a bunch of different Rails, Flask, Node, Phoenix and Jekyll apps (with and without Webpack). This is with all source code being mounted in from a spinning disk drive too, so it can get a lot faster.<p>So while maybe in a micro-benchmark, the WSL file system might be an order of magnitude slower (or worse) than native Linux, it doesn&#x27;t really seem to matter much when you use it in practice.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5gu8wWX3Ob4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5gu8wWX3Ob4</a>