Checkout really slow in Windows with lots of files in one directory

   We have a graphics-oriented code-base that's auto-generated and has >5000
source files in one directory. While I can check this out OK on Linux,
we're seeing an unusable slow-down on Windows XP (NTFS), both using Tortoise
directly, and as a test on Linux with the Windows drive mapped over CIFS.

   The checkout starts sensibly enough, but then gets steadily slower and
slower and slower, to the point were we're not sure it'd actually ever end.

   I know that there's a negative speed difference on NTFS, and that 1.7's
WC-NG might make this better, but this is getting near-logarithmically slower.

   Is that to be expected, or at least known about?

   (we're going to jigger the files around into sep. directories to get the
individual counts down; I expect that to help in this instance).

-- 
[neil_at_fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil_at_fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil_at_fnx ~]# exit