Why Watch is so slow compared to Regarde

[kud]

Hello,

I don't know exactly what really happens but... I've got a freelance project, and people use "watch".

I'm on Windows and I use a virtual machine with ubuntu server to have a whole linux environment. I know, it's a quite tricky context.

However, watch is so slow to execute a task. It detects that I've changed a file but it does nothing during 20 or 30s, and then it starts the task.

I have changed Watch to Regarde and now it executes the task directly, no time to wait. Regarde is so efficient.

Any idea? NTFS troubles?

[shama]

By default this watch task will spawn task runs as child processes. For some systems, especially on Windows it can be really slow. Set the option: nospawn: true.

https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch#optionsnospawn
https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch#why-spawn-as-child-processes-as-a-default

[kud]

Okay, thank you for the tips!

[amfern]

very helpful, thx

[thasmo]

Uh, thanks - that's it! :)

[YemSalat]

Thanks for the tip, and a quick update, the option seems to have changed to: spawn: false

[ykadosh]

WOW, it's so much faster now! Why not set spawn: false to be the default setting? I just wonder what are the benefits of having spawn: true