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		notgood on Sept 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows for Linux Nerds The linux subsystem for window is way faster than Cygwin (and any VM), I just tested grep on both platforms for a big text file (500MB) and cygwin-grep takes 2.630s while linux-subsytem-grep takes 0.395s

slaymaker1907 on Sept 14, 2017 [–]

I don't think grep is the best example since they could be different implementations of grep.

notgood on Sept 15, 2017 | [–]

I have seen similar differences in other programs as well (tail, head)

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