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hristov on Dec 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is Windows so slow?

I think the fact that is hot in cache may have influenced things here.

barrkel on Dec 19, 2011 [–]

The OP specifically mentions doing it twice to make sure the cache is hot: "Do it twice and time how long it takes. The reason to time only the second run is to give the OS a chance to cache data in ram"

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