From: pg AT gte DOT net (Pike Green) Subject: Re: EGCS Win32 gcc compiler wanted 23 Apr 1998 19:03:09 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd6eb8$bb2a6ec0$067a2499.cygnus.gnu-win32@hp-customer> Reply-To: "Pike Green" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cc: "Gorton Zhao Guo Wei" Gorton, ---Original Message--- [snip] I installed the b19.1 to my Pentium 133/32M ram PC together with NT 4.0 (workstation). I tried to tar (decompress) the EGCS 1.0.2 file (9.5M bytes in size). It took me whole night (about 15 hours) to do this, but it still has not been finished yet. The CPU usage almost stays 100%. It must be something wrongly. Normally, it only took a few minutes to compress a 20M bytes file if used a Winzip on the same computer. I guess that I have to turn on or to set some flags to this gnu-win32. Does anyone know how to speed up this gnu-win32? ------ I can't help with this one Gorton. My immediate goal is to replace the MS C++ compiler with ECGS, so I'm sticking with Mingw32 for now. Not long ago there was some correspondence on the list here about slow I/O with Cygwin32 that was traced to using 1KB buffers, but that would hardly account for the extraordinary run-times you are experiencing. Perhaps some of the Cygwin32 gurus can help you out here. Regards, Pike - 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".