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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:23:50 -0400
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On 8/22/2013 3:48 AM, Laurence Jennings wrote:
> I'm using cygwin 64 on a machine running windows 7. I need this to run
> some unix optimized scripts which create .ps files and convert them to
> .pdf using ps2pdf. When I'm running ps2pdf from the windows command
> line it takes approximately three minutes to convert a 100 mb file.
> When doing the same operation from cygwin it takes half an hour.
>
> Are there any known problems with cygwin and ghostscript?

Specific performance problems, beyond what one might expect from
software running under an emulator?  No.  That doesn't mean that
there isn't a performance issue that could be addressed.  Let's
see if the ghostscript maintainer has any thoughts.


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Larry

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A: Yes.
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