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RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?

From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:51:41 +0100
Subject: RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?

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 :)

  Or IOW, because it's doing a whole lot more work.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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