Depends on iops. On system with high iops(ssd), the impact of file count is negligible. On system with low iops (hhd, nfs or wsl on windows dirs), it is a nig

Depends on iops. On system with high iops(ssd), the impact of file count is negligible. On system with low iops (hhd, nfs or wsl on windows dirs), it is a nightmare. I used to try to run npm install in an old project on /mnt/c/ on wsl1. And the install that takes 20~30 second normally end up took 20 minutes. Because /mnt/c/ under wsl has extremely low iops.