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I was skeptical about the same argument. Both indexing and virus scanning are non-blocking processes that shouldn't impact page load time. And I'm not sure wh

by jforman 15y ago

I was skeptical about the same argument. Both indexing and virus scanning are non-blocking processes that shouldn't impact page load time. And I'm not sure what he means when he says "for an end user on the web they could mean a few seconds of waiting during which the web site stalls"? Filesystem caching isn't something specific to developers' boxes...

krakensden 15y ago
On Windows, lots of virus scanners hook into the vfs and (at least a few years ago) sometimes do terrifying things like check every access. This can really, really slow down i/o.
- romaniv 15y ago
  That doesn't sounds like a good enough reason to redesign a web API, especially if it means making it several orders of magnitude more complex. Stuff like that is clearly a problem, but it's not a browser problem.