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Re: Re[2]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux

Author David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com>
Full name David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com>
Date 2009-04-02 09:43:12 PDT
Message On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> wrote:
> It seems your imagination of Virus scanning schemes a bit outdated... Like, 8
> years old.
> Normal monitoring antivirus scan each file only once - at the creation or
> modification. And that does not take long time for single file.
> Then it forget about it. Reading from file, executing it will
> never trigger a scan unless you specifically told to do so, or other, non
> FS-related issues arise in process (Memory access to the different process,
> IRQ table manipulation, etc).

As others pointed out, I did mention this happened on checkout and not
update which are much faster. As others have pointed out, you can
exclude your working directory from the virus scanner -- if your
company permits it -- and that will take care of some of the problems.

However, Windows is still slower at gathering a bunch of files over a
network, and Windows takes more machine resources than Linux does.
This doesn't make Windows a bad OS. It's simply different.

Windows is a popular corporate environment because it is much easier
(and thus cheaper) to administer than Linux. Also, most PC hardware is
Windows compatible, but not necessarily Linux compatible. Besides,
when you buy a computer, it's most likely to come with Windows, so you
don't even have to install an OS. And, most corporate software is
currently Windows oriented.

However, if I am doing development which is not Windows specific, I
prefer Linux or Mac OS X over Windows. Even without the antivirus
software, I find Windows to be a slower and more difficult development
environment. Besides, most of my favorite tools (Eclipse, Java,
Python, Perl, PHP, Apache) already come installed on both Linux and
Mac OS X. I have to download them myself on a Windows system.

--
David Weintraub
qazwart at gmail dot com

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Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux webpost at tigris dot org webpost at tigris dot org 2009-04-01 03:09:46 PDT
     Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail dot com> Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail dot com> 2009-04-01 05:09:40 PDT
         RE: Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux abhishekjkanitkar Abhishek J Kanitkar 2009-04-01 22:41:41 PDT
             Re[3]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> 2009-04-02 07:40:03 PDT
     RE: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux "Bolstridge, Andrew" <andy dot bolstridge at intergraph dot com> "Bolstridge, Andrew" <andy dot bolstridge at intergraph dot com> 2009-04-01 05:13:16 PDT
     Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com> David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com> 2009-04-01 08:07:33 PDT
         RE: Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux abhishekjkanitkar Abhishek J Kanitkar 2009-04-01 22:35:42 PDT
             Re: Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail dot com> Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail dot com> 2009-04-02 05:15:09 PDT
             Re: Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com> David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com> 2009-04-02 08:21:11 PDT
         Re[2]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> 2009-04-02 08:35:01 PDT
             RE: Re[2]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux pilotbob Bob Archer 2009-04-02 08:41:12 PDT
                 Re[4]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> 2009-04-02 09:55:00 PDT
                     RE: Re[4]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux "Bolstridge, Andrew" <andy dot bolstridge at intergraph dot com> "Bolstridge, Andrew" <andy dot bolstridge at intergraph dot com> 2009-04-03 00:07:03 PDT
                         Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> 2009-04-03 06:35:03 PDT
             Re: Re[2]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com> David Weintraub <qazwart at gmail dot com> 2009-04-02 09:43:12 PDT
             Re: Re[2]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith dot occs at gmail dot com> B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith dot occs at gmail dot com> 2009-04-02 10:56:22 PDT
         Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Greg Thomas <thomasgd at omc dot bt dot co dot uk> Greg Thomas <thomasgd at omc dot bt dot co dot uk> 2009-04-02 09:56:49 PDT
             Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail dot com> 2009-04-02 10:35:42 PDT
             Re[2]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru> 2009-04-02 10:45:12 PDT
     Re: Re[2]: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Paul Koning <Paul_Koning at dell dot com> Paul Koning <Paul_Koning at dell dot com> 2009-04-02 08:46:47 PDT
         Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux John Aldridge <john dot aldridge at informatix dot co dot uk> John Aldridge <john dot aldridge at informatix dot co dot uk> 2009-04-03 03:36:09 PDT
             Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux qu1j0t3 Toby Thain 2009-04-03 15:49:39 PDT
                 Re: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux Nadeem Ilyas <nadimilyas at gmail dot com> Nadeem Ilyas <nadimilyas at gmail dot com> 2009-04-07 04:16:06 PDT
                     RE: Performance of SVN on Windows and Linux pilotbob Bob Archer 2009-04-07 07:27:08 PDT
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