title: Why is RSpec so slow on windows?
body: <p>Yes, taking the risk to get the whole Rails community over me...</p>
  
  <p>... why is RSpec so slow on windows? And with slow I mean slow. 710 examples in 47 minutes. Minutes!</p>
  
  <p>Compared with cucumber on the same PC, 183 scenario's, and some 1280 steps in 1.26 minutes</p>
  
  <p>RSpec - models and controllers
  Cucumber - all possible user interactions</p>
  
  <p>I know that RSpec is slow, but I definitely would like to find out why on average 4 seconds is spent on every example. I already ran RSpec to show me the top-10 slowest, but it seems a "general" slowness, not anything in particular</p>
  
  <p>I'm a "happy windows user" (yes this does exist!), except for RSpec...</p>