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From: Christopher Layne <clayne@anodized.com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin speed
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:11:54AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Vinod Gupta wrote:
> 
> > Cygwin was a slow by a factor of 3x. Is that normal?
> 
> Yes.  Emulation of POSIX functions which do not exist on Windows is
> expensive.  Fork is especially bad, which is all you're really testing
> there.

Where is the *continual* fork in his script btw?

-cl

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