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On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:46:03AM -0700, Christopher Wingert wrote:
>Thanks for the pointer, I just gave it a whirl, it actually didn't make
>much of a difference.
>
>I am going to start looking into making a patch.

Let me point out that the kind of slowdown that you are seeing is not
something that I would consider acceptable.  So what I'd like to see is
an analysis of *why* Cygwin is so slow rather than a band-aid which uses
an environment variable or different api to work around a real problem.

cgf

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