X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DE58AE3.904@tlinx.org> References: <20110529233841.GC5283@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20110530174649.GB14225@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4DE5773D.9040008@tlinx.org> <4DE579AC.1040007@redhat.com> <4DE58AE3.904@tlinx.org> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:16:52 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why does windows have such probs with dynamically loaded libs? From: Csaba Raduly To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p518HHGR015429 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: >        Hmmm...I wonder...do you know if Interix setups COW pages on fork? > If so, why in the heck would it perform so much more slowly than cygwin > when running the same tasks (shell scripts and such that do lots of little > forks)....  its performance was pretty bad next to cygwin, though that was > under XP, and several years back that I tested, so it may have changed). Last year I investigated Services For Unix on Vista and found it to be roughly on par with Cygwin in terms if compilation time of a complex C++ project. > Eric Blake wrote: >> Put yourself in Microsoft's shoes - why would you want to make it easier >> for free software If they wanted that, they would surely decide to enhance Windows Services For Unix; after all they paid good money for the company that made Interix. But, since SFU doesn't even have a proper poll(2) implementation, I'm not holding my breath. Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- 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