From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Optimizing memset/memcpy/strcpy/etc. 16 Feb 1998 21:02:23 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com A recent post to the "other" mailing list suggested that using optimized versions of some of the string and memory utilities might result in a noticeable speed improvement in cygwin. I tried that yesterday. I pulled over the assembly versions of various commonly used routines from glibc into a separate 'memory.c' file and rebuilt Cygwin32. I was disappointed to notice no noticeable speed improvement. It's hard to believe, but I really didn't see any difference in doing things like compiling a file in winsup. I guess that means that the most obvious speed improvement will probably come from optimizing the loading of dlls (somehow), like Sergey has suggested in the past. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."