We've found this to be basically true. Git operations that stat() a lot are dramatically, catastrophically slower on OS X, and that's part of why my employer st

We've found this to be basically true. Git operations that stat() a lot are dramatically, catastrophically slower on OS X, and that's part of why my employer started doing fs watching there and mostly left Linux as is. More than once I've had to update a cross-platform tool to avoid stat()ing because though cheap on Linux, it took 10s of seconds on OS X.