Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/06/07/04:55:29
On Jun 6 19:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:12:36AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >Meaning that: even if I'm only a Cygwin user, and I'm sometimes
> >disappointed by how slow it is, too, I'm sort of convinced there isn't a
> >cheaper way to get all the required information.
>
> I'm disappointed in Cygwin's slowness too. Corinna and I have spent
> many hours pouring over MSDN, internals books, and internals web sites.
> I've spent time looking at ReactOS sources trying to see if they would
> provide any insight into how Windows does things.
>
> It's possible, maybe even likely, that there are things that could be
> done to speed up Cygwin but I don't think it's likely that they include
> using simple Windows API stuff like the suggested GetFileAttributes() or
> limiting Cygwin's POSIXness.
Full ACK.
> And, if speed ups do exist, they
> definitely do not require a private audience with me or Corinna.
>
> The best place to discuss improvements is actually the cygwin-developers
> mailing list. And, as I said, if you do have a patch to propose, it
> would pay to start early on getting the paperwork done.
Indeed. It would be rather cool if some interested developer would dive
into this code and maybe just look from a different perspective. I
don't like the idea to cripple the stat API, though. There's certainly
room for improvement in other ways while maintaining information
completeness of the stat function.
Corinna
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