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List:       cygwin
Subject:    Re: Cygwin speed
From:       Brian Dessent <brian () dessent ! net>
Date:       2007-03-02 19:11:54
Message-ID: 45E876FA.7401B017 () dessent ! net
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Vinod Gupta wrote:

> Cygwin was a slow by a factor of 3x. Is that normal?

Yes.  Emulation of POSIX functions which do not exist on Windows is
expensive.  Fork is especially bad, which is all you're really testing
there.

Brian

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