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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:41:02 -0400
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Subject: Re: gprof reported run times off by factor 1.56 on some machines.  Has timer tick rate changed ?
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On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 02:12:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>Guy Larri wrote:
>>gprof reports run times 1.56 times too fast on some machines under cygwin.
>>On another cygwin installation it reports the correct run time.
>
>Yikes!  Now Cygwin is too fast!!  Please someone do *something* to slow it
>down!  This is just not acceptable!!!  ;-)

I am *so* sick of people complaining about how fast cygwin is.  Cygwin is
an emulation layer!  It emulates linux!  Linux is faster than Windows so
of *course* Cygwin will be faster than Windows, too.

Cheesh.

cgf

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