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w1hkj wrote:

> There is is very significant difference in cpu usage between running the
> application from the Cygwin X-terminal and running from the run command
> (with the cygwin1.dll) from Windows.
> 
> System       X-term      Windows-Run
> HP Athalon   33%           100%
> Dell 3000    3 %            55%

How much text/console output is involved in this testcase?  I find that
when run from a Windows Console, any significant amount of stdout is
much slower than when using rxvt/xterm.  I think it's partly because the
Windows Console is just a lot slower, but also because I have Lucida
Console, a Truetype font, configured for the Windows Console (as well as
Cleartype subpixel rendering enabled) which is very slow to render
compared to a fixed size bitmap font that I have configured for
rxvt/xterm.

Brian

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