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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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Christopher Faylor wrote:

>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.
>  
>
Oh, I get it. If my processor is to slow I just have to get a emulation 
prog. for a faster (maybe multiprocessor) one and run everything on top 
of it. than maybe everuthing goes so fast that I cannot even see it.

>Cheesh.
>
>cgf
>
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