Here are a few suggestions to make subversion a bit faster on Windows

• Defragment your drive

• Change the following registry settings (Use google for more info on what they do)

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem and set DisableNTFSLastAccessUpdate to 1. (Use it to disable updating the LastAccess field - this field doesn't exist on Unix for example)

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem and set 'NTFSDisable8Dot3NameCreation' to 1. (Use it to disable support for old DOS 8-character filenames)

• Turn off the Windows Indexing Service for the root of your checkout folders. Right-click the folder, click "Properties", click "Advanced...", uncheck the "For fast searching..." box.

• Switch to Linux.