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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 22:42:30 +0300
From: Paul Sokolovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>
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Hello N8TM,

N8TM AT aol DOT com <N8TM AT aol DOT com> wrote:


>> Is there any way to make cygwin programs (I mean these from the package:
Nac> gcc,
>>  awk, bash, grep, etc.) to work faster ?
Nac> Disconnect from the network and simplify your Path.  Change OS versions.  I
Nac> just demonstrated a factor of 3 under NT4 between configure scripts while
Nac> connected to a network and while disconnected.  W2K is faster in either case.
Nac>  But it's quite a struggle for Windows to imitate linux.

      Yes, but it's still can be done faster. My own experiments show
that there're operations which Win32 can perform only 2 times slower
than Linux! Isn't it bright? Forks are still hundreds times slower ;-(

Nac> Tim
Nac> tprince AT computer DOT org

Nac> --


Best regards,
 Paul                            mailto:paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua



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