NTFS is horrendously slow compared with ext4 when creating lots of small files. This makes many things slower on Windows when compared to Linux.
Basic example
Unzip a zip/jar/war file on Windows compared to Linux. On Linux it is almost instantaneous, whereas in Windows it takes (depending on the jar) a long time.
For example this makes integration testing where test setup is a zip/jars that need to be extracted to temp directory much slower when testing on Windows.
Motivation
Improves overall development / testing experience and can make developers more productive.
Expected outcome is extracting large archives with many files is much more performant
Summary
NTFS is horrendously slow compared with ext4 when creating lots of small files. This makes many things slower on Windows when compared to Linux.
Basic example
Unzip a zip/jar/war file on Windows compared to Linux. On Linux it is almost instantaneous, whereas in Windows it takes (depending on the jar) a long time.
For example this makes integration testing where test setup is a zip/jars that need to be extracted to temp directory much slower when testing on Windows.
Motivation
Improves overall development / testing experience and can make developers more productive.
Expected outcome is extracting large archives with many files is much more performant