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Date:	Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:07:29 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: latest cygcheck -c is expensive
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:40:47AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Would you be willing to make the status check portion of cygcheck -c
>optional (i.e., another option)?  The latest version is very expensive:
>
>    $ # 1.5.3 on P4 2.4 GHz
>    $ time cygcheck -c >/dev/null
>
>    real    1m49.646s
>    user    0m0.010s
>    sys     0m0.020s
>
>    $ # 1.3.22 on P3 500 MHz
>    $ time cygcheck -c >/dev/null
>
>    real    0m0.042s
>    user    0m0.010s
>    sys     0m0.020s

Why does it matter if cygcheck -c is expensive?  It is supposed to be doing
a sanity check on the installation.

OTOH, it could probably be speeded up considerably if it used a mingw zlib
library...

cgf

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