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I'm 90% sure that one of the changes made to the way Lion copies files was this exactly - it now queues operations for maximum throughput. I do wish I could find a link that said this - I apologize for that.


Everyone is assuming that they are doing no improvements in the back-end. This was a discussion about the front-end of copy operations. I like the new interface and think that while it does not seem whoopingly big, it will make copy-pasta more tasty.

Just when I thought I could hate on microsoft, they come out with a nice improvement.

HOWEVER what I'd really like to see is a tool which shows you during boot time what boot ops are not behaving well, and give a very easy and responsive interface for murdering those ops. If its a video driver, fall back to default, some crap that can show me a web browser to troubleshoot with giant warnings that your video driver is dead. If they can get this whole startup taking god knows how long due to one bad application mess, windows will be quite awesome.

And then they need to help developers get the posix tools ported to windows an the most meaningful way out-of-the-box with no special install. Including replacing CMD with Bash and changing their FS to support a good structure like linux (C:, D: can still exist, but make a Sys: which contains things like proc and friends)




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