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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:30:36 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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To: Kelvin Lee <Kelvin.Lee@lansa.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 1.3.[12]: readdir() performance problem introduced
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Kelvin Lee wrote:
> 
> For 1.3.[12]:
> 
> Noticed from the behaviour of man. It took long long time before returning
> "No manual entry for x" for unavailable page x.
> For 1.1.7, man returned the message almost immediately.
> 
> Dug into the source code of man and did some profiling, I found that more
> than 95% of time was spent on the system call readdir(). And that is several
> hundred times slower than 1.1.7.
> 
> Will try to produce a patch. But need to figure out how to compile
> cygwin1.dll first.
> 

First before compiling try out the most recent snapshot.  AFA compiling
the Cygwin source is concerned, check the FAQ.

-- 
Earnie.

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