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		pault on Oct 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions Time the difference between an npm install, with all its thousands of tiny files, on NTFS and ext4. It's excruciating.

cpach on Oct 21, 2019 [–]

Just copying Emacs for Windows from one folder to another takes surprisingly long time :)

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