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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 02:34:09 -0700
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"Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> 
> If I were porting an old app from unix to cygwin, and wanted to tune
> performance, I'd much rather do this:

Both you and Jonathan have understood my intent perfectly.  

Christopher, please do consider this proposal.  It's easy to implement
-- probably just a few tweaks on Egor's patch -- and it makes it easy to
gain performance with straightforward patches to affected programs. 
It'd be nice if we can make Cygwin faster, but this proposal has an
inherent advantage: the calling process _knows_ what it wants, whereas
Cygwin can only guess or anticipate.

Egor, Jonathan, maybe some benchmarks would help convince Christopher of
the patch's utility.
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