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Hugh McMaster wrote:

> Have you tried enabling the large Windows memory cache option?  This
> should increase your Cygwin compile time immensely.  The build time is
> also related, as you know, to what else is taking CPU time.

No, I haven't, as the test isn't (or shouldn't be) I/O bound. The first 
run can be a bit slower, but following runs are quicker, and appear to 
run entirely from the filesystem cache (and those are the ones I timed). 
And I've run the tests on an idle system.

   Magnus


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