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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 06:52:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Couple of nits about Cygwin
To: Kendall Bennett <KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Kendall Bennett <KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com> wrote:
>  2. Bash seems a lot slower at responding to commands than a regular 
> command shell on NT. Bash on Linux is very responsive, so it must be 
> something inherent in Cygwin. Is this something that is a known 
> issue? I assume it would be solved already if it was simple, so I am 
> mostly curious.
> 

Blame Cygwin for that.  It has a lot of string manipulation to do.  I will add
that some of the slowness has been eliminated in recent snapshots.

Regards,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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