SpamFiles
I've been whining for a while about SpamFiles' speed on Windows. It creates and writes small amounts of data to hundreds of files, then deletes them all. It's orders of magnitude slower on Windows (all the way to Seven) than on Linux, due to NTFS.
It's just a synthetic benchmark though, right? That is, it's reasonably irrelevant. Or so I thought.
In a recent private project I was using Spring's JDBCTemplate with SQLite to write out a couple of hundred rows to an empty table. JDBCTemplate defaults to autocommit and it's non-trivial to convince it not to do so.
The relevant code and sqlitelulz.jar shows why this is a problem:
>java -jar sqlitelulz.jar 1000 Autocommit: 70.867652636 seconds Manual commit: 0.107324493 seconds $ java -jar sqlitelulz.jar 1000 Autocommit: 1.814235004 seconds Manual commit: 0.075502495 seconds
Yes, that's 660 times slower on Windows (and only 25 times slower on non-ntfs). This time is entirely sqlite creating and deleting it's journal file.
Sadness.
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