From: b.mcleod@opengroup.org ("Bruce D. McLeod") Subject: RE: gcc -E slower in beta 18? 15 May 1997 01:49:30 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970514202956.01579918.cygnus.gnu-win32@postman.osf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: mcleod@postman.osf.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Original-To: Sergey Okhapkin , "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Philip Chow'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 10:56 AM 5/11/97 +0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: >Philip Chow wrote: >> I just recently had some time to move all my tools from beta 14 to beta18 >> and I am noticing a dramatic performance degradation for C-preprocessing >> of files with gcc -E. >> > >File open operations in B18 are much slower due to symlinks to directories support. Symlink_check/Path_conv code requires serious modifications :-( My compiles have slowed down dramatically also. Is there a workaround? perhaps to disable symlinks if we are not using them? Bruce - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".