> On 10 Dec 2017, at 21:37, Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl> wrote: > > Op 10-12-2017 om 15:44 schreef Cyril Ferlicot: >> On dim. 10 déc. 2017 at 15:07, Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com wrote: >>> And I don't mean 1 or 2 thousand files. >>> Loading bloc for example creates over 20.000 files. >>> This is damn slow on windows. >> This is one of the reasons Esteban created Tonel I think. With Tonel there >> is 1 file par class instead of 1 file per method. Once it will be really >> stable, moving projects to Tonel should speed up things on Windows. > > Indeed. An even larger problem is the write amplification: Minimium disk file > size of 4KB means a slow down of a factor 20. 1 (primary) file per class and > sorting the methods helps a lot. Doing that in a cross-platform compatible > way so we can easier share source code needs some further refinement
and btw since we moved pharo to tonel windows is a viable platform: commits became seconds instead minutes (lots of minutes). still work to do there, but we are getting closer… ;) Esteban > > Stephan > >
