X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:17:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState? Message-ID: <20060424171716.GB3890@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <12E580AADCB6964B994BB3106FA6A68AB8D107 AT nova DOT austin DOT intera DOT com> <043301c667bf$5c787350$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <043301c667bf$5c787350$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:51:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 24 April 2006 16:53, Neil E. Deeds wrote: >>Anyone have an idea as to why Perl runs this code so much slower under >>Cygwin? > >Look up "emulation layer" in any good technical dictionary :) But, you forget. Cygwin is emulating linux and linux is faster than Windows. Dave, you have to think about these things before you just fire off email! The real solution here is to just make sure that all of the time functions in Cygwin report figures which support the fact that Cygwin is as fast as Linux. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/