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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 Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:58:27AM +0700, Alexander J. Herrmann wrote:
>
>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.

Right.  I usually run a Cray simulator on my system.  While I lose x86
compatibility, the processing power boost is incredible.

cgf

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