Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/01/14/15:11:57
Is it possible that we are comparing w95 to wNT?? I would expect there
to be a "glacial" difference between these two OS.
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>From: epeschko AT den-mdev1 DOT tci DOT com (Ed Peschko)
>Subject: Re: performance of cygwin32
>To: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:59:17 -0700 (MST)
>Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Reply-To: ed_peschko AT csgsystems DOT com (Ed Peschko)
>
>>
>> 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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