> If a directory contains a large number of files (I have > >40000) where most of them are named such that the first > character is a "1" and you do an "ls x*" where only one of > the files begin with x, the ls takes an inordinate amount of > time, but going to a plain dos window and "dir e*" is really fast. The cmd/dos window's filename filtering is done in the kernel, whereas Cygwin's is done in user mode so every file is processed.
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