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Subject: Re: Cygwin speed
From: Christopher Layne <clayne () anodized ! com>
Date: 2007-03-05 1:17:13
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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