From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com (Mikey) Subject: Re: MUCH faster cygwin.dll was RE:Time and motion studies of gcc and egcs and LCC 21 Feb 1998 11:29:00 -0800 Message-ID: <34ece65c.5028391.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp.netzone.com> References: <199802182234 DOT OAA08709 AT skaro DOT cygnus DOT com> Reply-To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Geoffrey Noer , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com You are correct. win95b P100 24M mem configure+make ...cdk/tar cygwin.cool_reloc_dll 10m31s cygwin.cool_stripped_dll 10m19s Looks like I got excited over nothing :-(, the effect was mostly from being able to configure/make the cdk for the first time with coolview.dll, as a result of marking it as a dll. Primarily just the faster file system access. Looks like the only real solution is static binaries, at least for bash, the compiler suite and textutils. and rewriting newlib/libc/string/ and the equivalent libiberty functions in extern __inline__ x86 asm. I guess I had better get to work on fork() On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 14:34:11 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >Mikey wrote: >[...] >> The speedup is from stripping the .reloc section. >> rebasing has no (or at most very minimal) effect >> on time spent in relocation processing. > >I performed the strip operation and configuring all of comp-tools >with future b19 decreased only marginally -- from 22m05s to 21m58s. >Not a huge gain... :-( wana trade machines? ===================================================== Linux a platform built by, and for users, standing on the firm legs of reliability, and speed. Microsoft Windows, a platform without a leg to stand on. (jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com) delete REMOVETHIS from the above to reply Mikey - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".