Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 22:01:24 +0200
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> From: rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:43:43 +0100
> 
> xcopy is also external and just as slow as cp when called from bash. Looks
> to me that bash needs to initialize DPMI and exit from DPMI everytime it
> runs an external program. I do have cp.exe.

The DJGPP port of Bash does not initialize DPMI or exit from it when
it runs external programs.

So there's some other reason for the slowness.