alt Hacker NewsIs this why Windows takes so long to delete things?? Presumably those reads aren't done when using del from a console as that always seems a bit faster.
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Asmod4n • yesterday at 2:58 PM
Windows Explorers zip implementation also seams to do 1 byte reads by the speed is has compared to every other zip implementation.
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Its slowness is also a function of security software or any other file system "filters" (I believe they're called) are installed.
For example, I run TortoiseGit which has a caching feature which is supposed to make it faster at showing what to commit. Disabling it increases the number of items I can delete per second in my Windows Explorer from about 1000 to about 3000 while making not making TortoiseGit operations meaningfully slower (that I can tell).
This is a Dev Drive [0] on my machine, it would probably be slower on my C: drive which has full Windows Defender real time file scanning.
[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/dev-drive/