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Re: cygwin on 95 slower than NT
- To: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml at is dot lg dot ua>
- Subject: Re: cygwin on 95 slower than NT
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:23:22 -0500
- Cc: J Senthil Kumar <skumar2 at hotmail dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <19991123141243.12476.rocketmail@web113.yahoomail.com> <6786.991125@is.lg.ua>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 06:53:12PM +0200, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>EB> --- J Senthil Kumar <skumar2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>Iam using cygwin shell on NT and 95. On windows 95 the shell scripts
>>>are considerably slow. Like it take 1-2 seconds for each command. Is
>>>this natural?. Is there any parameter to be adjusted in the DOS Shell.
>>>Iam a shell maniac I badly need a fast shell on Win95. Could you
>>>help?.
>
>It's known issue of Cygwin (and other POSIX layers, e.g. UWIN). They
>all by some reason (probably because they themselves were developed on
>NT, without enough attention to other Win32 systems) count Win9x as
>'degraded mode'.
Oh yeah. That was it. If only we'd paid more attention to Windows 95,
Cygwin would be much faster. I knew that we should have used the
"GoFasterOnWin9x (TRUE);' function.
If anyone thinks they can optimize things so that console I/O works
better on Windows 95, I'll be thrilled to consider a patch.
-chris
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