Re: Latest 64 bit test stuff on sourceware

[Teemu NÃtkinniemi <tnatkinn at gmail dot com>]

On 20.2.2013 22:32, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 19 February 2013 09:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb 18 10:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Feb 17 21:32, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > > > I've also tried ye olde date fork benchmark (`while true; do date;
> > > > done | uniq -c`), on a Windows 8-64 laptop: I got 26 dates per second
> > > > with 32-bit Cygwin, but 50 with 64-bit Cygwin, so that's looking quite
> > > > promising.
> > >
> > > Sounds good.  I just hope it's not only a side-effect of some bug still
> > > lurking in Cygwin :}
> >
> > Did you test dash vs. bash by any chance?
>
> You're right, I did.
>
> > If so, bash is rather slow
> > compared to dash.  On my 2008R2 testmachine I tested the above date loop
> > in dash, and I get 45 with Cygwin 1.7.17 (35 with bash), and 58+ with
> > the 64 bit DLL, so that's about 28% faster.
>
> Retesting with the latest stuff I got 47 vs 34 in dash (+38%), and 39
> vs 26 in bash (+50%).

I tested the same on my Windows 8 machine and got 70 for Cygwin 1.7.17 
(Bash), 105 with x64 Bash. Dash on x64 gives me 129.