RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>]

> From: Dave Korn
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:23 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?
> 
> On 24 April 2006 18:17, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:51:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> On 24 April 2006 16:53, Neil E. Deeds wrote:
> >>> Anyone have an idea as to why Perl runs this code so much slower 
> >>> under Cygwin?
> >> 
> >> Look up "emulation layer" in any good technical dictionary :)
> > 
> > But, you forget.  Cygwin is emulating linux and linux is 
> faster than 
> > Windows.
> 
>   That feature isn't implemented yet.  PTC though!
> 
> > Dave, you have to think about these things before you just fire off 
> > email!
> > 
> > The real solution here is to just make sure that all of the time 
> > functions in Cygwin report figures which support the fact 
> that Cygwin 
> > is as fast as Linux.
> 
>   Cygwin already *is* four times faster than windows, but 
> it's implemented in scaled-down step time.  One second for 
> cygwin is about equivalent to pi microfortnights on a real 
> linux system.
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
> --
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

Ah, yeah, excuse me gentlemen, I believe you're on the wrong list.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle