Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/09/12/20:38:54
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:46:41AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 03:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I *am* concerned about YA performance hit on Windows 9x, though. I'd like
>> to avoid that if possible.
>
>No hit, its been like it is now since day 1. (Well actually there was
>the process wide mutex serialisation when I first started hacking at it,
>but thats long gone).
>
>I just had the opportunity to make NT *faster*.
I noticed. It's noticeably faster.
In fact, for some reason, cygwin *feels* faster now. It seems to start
up zsh much more quickly.
I"m wondering if this is, in part, due to the use of critical sections
in reading /etc/passwd. I can't believe that it would have that noticeable
an effect but I don't know what else to attribute it to. It seems faster
than 1.3.2.
I guess I just worry about the potential for cygwin mailing list whines
about slowness on 9x. Maybe I'm getting overly sensitve to that. :-)
And, getting our own implementation of TryEnterCriticalSection is
something I'd always wanted to try.
cgf
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