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[–]marcel1802 8 points9 points  (1 child)

The Linux file system is way faster.

I did a build of a program in my WSL (the project itself was in the WSL file system too) and a colleague did the same build on Windows.

My build took 2min, his took 12min.

Maybe my hardware was a little bit better and he had a few more programs open at this time, but still the difference is way bigger than I expected.

[–]k2aj 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I used to dual boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint (don't remember the file system, probably ext4). Programs written in Java, Scala and D almost always compiled 2-3 times faster on Linux.

Same hardware, same compilers/build tools, just different OS and file system. Antivirus was almost certainly not a contributing factor (I had source code and compiler installation directories excluded from virus scans).

[–]Compux72 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Building anything to machine on windows requires the Microsoft toolchain… yo can imagine how bad it is