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Re: Cygwin speed
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:11:54 -0800
- Subject: Re: Cygwin speed
- References: <45E86FFD.7060301@princeton.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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.
Brian
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