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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:49:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

> At 03:25 PM 2/13/2001, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >
> >Actually, it is.  I did some benchmarks using the native Win32 API
> >directly, and Linux is way faster.
> 
> 
> Any chance that you have a pointer to the results of such a test?  Just
> curious.

And I have seen results that show W2k/NTFS_5 to be at least as fast as
some of the Unix counterparts, and I trust neither (at least not w/out
more information). I also don't trust benchmark numbers of Linux/ext2fs,
because of the metadata issue, nor do I trust some of the other Unix and
W2k numbers because of other issues. *BSD and Linux folks don't believe 
each others numbers either.  Argh, Just can't win. Skeptical crisis all 
over again. 

Regards,
Mumit



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