From:	weiku AT utkux DOT utcc DOT utk DOT edu (Wei Ku)
Subject:	Re: performance of cygwin32
13 Jan 1998 18:26:18 -0800 :
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I do notice a boost in performance when I upgrade the main memory from 32 MB
to 32 + 64 = 96 MB. Maybe this can explain the different result between your
machines.

Sincerely,
Wei Ku

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Peschko <epeschko AT den-mdev1 DOT tci DOT com>
To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: performance of cygwin32


>>
>> Ed Peschko wrote:
>> >
>> > Win32 is slow, but network drives are *glacial*, at least with cygwin32
>> > tools. I've installed the coolview update (when will it be incorporated
>> > into the 'vanilla' cygwin32 tools anyways?) and it is going a bit
faster.
>>
>> The "coolview" sources represent a state of the actual Cygnus development
>> tree as of whenever that was made.  It's made more progress since then;
>> right now I'm battling race conditions in the signal code...
>>
>> Right now I can do a complete configure of the compiler tools (including
>> tcl/tk) in about 20 minutes and build them in an hour 15 min. which is a
>> huge improvement performance-wise.  But signal handling isn't quite as
>> robust as it needs to be...
>
>Well, something must be seriously wrong with my configuration, because I
was
>seeing performance times of about 6-7 hours to do the same.
>
>1 hour 15 mins is what I call slightly slow. 6-7 hours is what I call
glacial.
>I'd hit 'ls' and it would take about a minute to respond....
>
>I could live with an hour to build all the tools, believe me. Its just the
>going to dinner, then taking a nap, then playing two games of pool, and
finally
>coming back to the keyboard to see that the tools are *still* compiling
>which is getting annoying.
>
>Ed
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