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On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:32:46 -0400, Christopher Faylor
<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 06:52:38PM +0200, Vincent R. wrote:
>>On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:06:22 -0400, Christopher Faylor
>>> No one is asking for benchmarks! However, if we were, strace is
>>> particularly unsuitable for that task.  If you want to see improvements
>>> happen then dive into the code and offer specific suggestions.
>>
>>I did but maybe it would be important to know for sure that the problem
>>comes from fork and exec because I think you are sharing the same code
>>with mingw and it runs a lot faster with it.  So before I dive :
>>
>>1) I want to be sure that fork/exec are the reason
>>2) See the differences with mingw.
> 
> If you think we're sharing process creation code with MinGW then you
> have a misunderstanding about the nature of the projects.  One of the
> main reasons for MinGW is that they want to do everything natively.
> That is obviously not the case with Cygwin.
> 
I know that.

> If you are talking about MSYS then, the last time I checked, we were
> actually slightly faster.  
I will check this affirmation.

> I obviously can't tell you what to do but I
> doubt that comparing the current version of Cygwin against an ancient
> hacked version of Cygwin (i.e., MSYS) is going to be very useful.
> 

Ok so no more proposal.
<autosuggestion mode>
But after all why am I so interested in reducing compilation time on cygwin
because now I have time to take 10 coffees, read all my emails, ...
</autosuggestion mode>




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