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win-fast-rm

The actually faster(?) way to delete files on Windows.

Caution

I do NOT claim responsibility for accidentally deleted files. They're not recoverable.

Motivation

I recently came across this video, and came to the conclusion that this guy has no idea what he's talking about. turns out, I was the one who had no idea what I was talking about 🙃

I want to prove that Windows does have ways to delete files very fast, but it's definitely not as straight forward as I previously thought. I am annoyed by the lack of variety in the testing used in the video, so I will also experiment with different APIs and methods, possibly even hybrid solutions that use multiple threads combined with Windows APIs.

Benchmarking

TODO

Using this project

The project is distributed as a library, allowing you to delete files are fast as possible in your applications, or as an executable for testing purposes.

You can get it on cargo with cargo add win_fast_rm

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