Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:48:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [OT] Re: Rebaseall fails with error 6 ... In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040626142806.03333fd8@pop.prospeed.net> Message-ID: References: <6.1.0.6.0.20040626003959.03347518@pop.prospeed.net> <398DB2AE-C72E-11D8-AE31-000A95BDA2FE@osafoundation.org> <87pt7m9prk.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <6.1.0.6.0.20040626142806.03333fd8@pop.prospeed.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 01:45 PM 6/26/2004, you wrote: > >[snip] > >(But I don't regret reinstalling -- for some reason it's much faster > >now, even though I'm using the same versions of all the DLLs) > > That's a little known secret of Cygwin. It gets faster every time > you reinstall. It's a reward to those bold enough to endure the > disruption of the reinstall. Theoretically, if you reinstalled > constantly for one month straight (taking time out for meals of > course), you'd gain the performance of a bank of Crays running > Cygwin. No one is really sure what that performance would be > though because no one has had enough patience so far to test that > limit.[*] So *THAT'S* why people are bugging this list about automating setup!!!!! > -- > Larry Hall > * ;-) Al this is an *attempt* at humor. Please don't take any of it > seriously. 'kay. But who's "Al"? ;-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/