From cygwin  Mon Mar 05 01:17:13 2007
From: Christopher Layne <clayne () anodized ! com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:17:13 +0000
To: cygwin
Subject: Re: Cygwin speed
Message-Id: <20070305011713.GG6734 () ns1 ! anodized ! com>
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:11:54AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> 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.

Where is the *continual* fork in his script btw?

-cl

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