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Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 12:51:31 -0700
Subject: Re: Cygwin Performance and stat()
From: "Christopher Wingert" <mailbox AT wingert DOT org>
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I assume POSIX compatibility.  However, I bet there are cases where one
can sacrifice compatibility for performance (configurable with an
environment flag of course).

See

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=122278284210941

for an example.


> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:54:10AM -0700, Christopher Wingert wrote:

>>I was looking into speeding up stat() performance.  More specifically
>>bash, ls, test, stat performance.  I've seen the subject come up before.
>>Git recently implemented a native Win32 work around.  Are there any
>> cygwin
>>patches around?
>
> If there was a way to make stat() faster why wouldn't it be in the source
> code already?
>
> cgf
>
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