Quite a few years back, someone did a test compiling a large project on Windows, and on a Linux VM running on that same Windows box, all using the same compiler

Quite a few years back, someone did a test compiling a large project on Windows, and on a Linux VM running on that same Windows box, all using the same compiler tool chain. The Linux VM compiled the project faster. :/ The conclusion was that NTFS may have issues with thousands upon thousands of small files. I'd really like to see an updated comparison, it'd be a fun set of benchmarks to run and investigate.