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On 1/19/2012 2:06 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> On 19 January 2012 14:52, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Corinna and I think that we're coming close to achieving stability for
>> a new release so we'd like you to try the most recent snapshot at:
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>>
>> Please reports variations from 1.7.9, including "Hey! It's a lot faster
>> than 1.7.9!" as well as the usual bug reports.
>
> I've been running the 2012-01-11 snapshot since it was released with no issues.
>
> Thank you for all the hard work!
>
> Chris
>

ditto!

Said snapshot appears to be the "best" cygwin I'd installed for many months.
Bash starts up noticeably faster.
No random "fork", "bad address" etc errors anymore when when building 
large projects.
Kudos to all that made it happen.

H.



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