From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: bash performance not so gooood 17 Sep 1997 18:52:40 -0700 Message-ID: <199709180128.SAA26697.cygnus.gnu-win32@cirdan.cygnus.com> References: Content-Type: text To: DKhosla@Compaq.com (Khosla Deepak) Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Khosla, Deepak wrote: > > Hi, > Just some comparison numbers on a large script I ran on Windows NT 4.0 > SP3 using some different packages: > > Gnuwin bash - 2 mins 20 secs > MKS ksh - 2 mins 0 secs > ATT UWIN ksh - 0 mins 20 secs > > Any opinions as to why? I'm not surprised. Very little time has been spent optimizing cygwin.dll or bash. Bash currently uses fork() instead of spawn() which costs it quite a bit of time. The Cygwin32 layer also needs performance analysis. Until that happens, it will be slower than it needs to be. > Any ideas since at this performance, I would have to buy the UWIN > package and I would prefer not doing it.... You could either buy UWIN or improve cygwin.dll and/or bash and send us patches. :-) -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".