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		consteval on Oct 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rider is now free for non-commercial use The solution is to use an NVME SSD and stop programming on Windows. NTFS is painfully slow for many-files type use cases. Unfortunately, many-files describes most codebases. Git clients on Windows are also painfully slow for this reason.

cageface on Oct 29, 2024 [–]

In fact I only use Apple Silicon macs, where the issue is still quite evident.

consteval on Oct 30, 2024 | [–]

Not sure what to tell you, this should be solved on Macs. I'm pretty sure their SSDs are very fast. Although - be aware, the smaller capacity ones are about half the speed. They don't tell you that.

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