Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:16:53 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: select() too slow
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 06:04:37PM +0000, Pedro Inacio wrote:
>On 2006/03/11, at 15:40, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>>
>>I'm afraid that this is not a very good bug report, as you have not
>>attempted to describe WHAT is too slow, and have not provided a simple
>>test case that compiles out of the box, with timing numbers on the  
>>test
>>case compared between Linux and Cygwin.  Cygwin is only as fast as the
>>underlying Windows system calls permit it to be.  Also, cygwin is open
>>source.  Go look at the source code to select() and you will see  
>>that it
>>is very complex, since Windows does not provide good hooks for an
>>efficient implementation.  If you would like it to be faster, then
>>consider writing a patch to cygwin that can speed it up.
>
>first of all this is not a bug report, but just trying to understand
>what might be the problem.  If I knew what the problem is I was not
>asking if there is any known issue, a fix, or something.  I've read the
>archives before posting and there are some guys with similar problems
>but no answers.

But we don't know what the actual problem *is*.  What does "too slow"
mean?  select takes an extra twenty milliseconds under Cygwin?  select doesn't
respond within 24 hours?

You are apparently a programmer because you know about select().  Think
of this from the point of view of someone reporting a problem with your
software.  Wouldn't you ask them for more details if the bug report was
merely "Your program is slow?"

>I know that the select() function on windows is quite different

It is different to the point of being nonexistent -- except for sockets.

>and not very handy.  One thing is weird for sure, similar code works
>just fine on Unix but is not very performante on Windows.

Whether it is a bug report or not, you haven't given enough details for
anyone to comprehend what you are talking about.

Your email seems to have been sent with an understanding that everyone
will just automatically understand what you're talking about.  That
is not the case.  You can't take shortcuts to describing a problem if
you truly want help.  You haven't provided enough information to even
provide a WAG.

cgf

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