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Subject: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:52:42 -0500
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From: "Neil E. Deeds" <ndeeds AT intera DOT com>
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I am having I/O performance issues with Cygwin perl.  For example (where
"c/Perl/bin/perl" is the activestate version):

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ndeeds AT hal9000 ~/lcra/models/opt$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

ndeeds AT hal9000 ~/lcra/models/opt$ /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 25 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

ndeeds AT hal9000 ~/lcra/models/opt
$ time perl test.pl

real    0m9.266s
user    0m8.780s
sys     0m0.109s

ndeeds AT hal9000 ~/lcra/models/opt
$ time /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl test.pl

real    0m2.266s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.000s

ndeeds AT hal9000 ~/lcra/models/opt
$ cat test.pl
#!/bin/perl

open(OUTFIL,">test.out");
foreach $i (1..50000) {
   foreach $j (1..10) {
        $ary[$j-1] = rand 1;
   }
   printf OUTFIL (("%15.7e"x10)."\n",@ary); 
}
close(OUTFIL);

ndeeds AT hal9000 ~/lcra/models/opt$ 

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The test.pl code looks a little weird because I was doing a line by line
comparison to a Fortran code (which runs in <1 sec, btw).

Anyone have an idea as to why Perl runs this code so much slower under
Cygwin?

Cheers,

Ed.

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