X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.7: rm -rf sometimes fails - race condition? References: <4D029937.5080007@etr-usa.com> <4D029F7D.5070106@gmx.de> <4D02B46E.6070306@etr-usa.com> <4D036518.7010409@gmx.de> <4D072148.1080400@etr-usa.com> <4D0884E8.50708@etr-usa.com> <4D08B9D7.3040506@gmx.de> <4D098540.8070401@gmx.de> <4D098DA0.3080200@gmx.de> <4D0A57D3.7070900@etr-usa.com> <20101217110206.GA1512@calimero.vinschen.de> From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:33:39 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20101217110206.GA1512@calimero.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:02:06 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.60, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen writes: >> Incidentally, if you're reading this, Corinna: the iterations are >> about 2.5x faster with this DLL. What'd you do? :) > > Nothing fancy. We chanted the code and sacrificed a few kittens to the > big C++, that's all. I just tried the 20101215 snapshot on a Windows 7 64-bit box, and it is 25% _slower_ on the date fork loop (approx. 8/sec as opposed to 12.5/sec) than the vanilla 1.7.7 version from August. . . ht - --=20 Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged s= pam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFNEJ6jkjnJixAXWBoRAot6AJ0SpwO5AehouXr25GPNpNw9lKzsOwCfQZvF xdxhzUI0Oe9A1RF32nsVP10=3D =3D0jki -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple