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> From: jay DOT krell AT cornell DOT edu
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com; marchywka AT hotmail DOT com; andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com
> Subject: RE: console scroll speed on Win XP
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:34:08 +0000
>
>
>> Andy
>> Yep, the Windows console is slow alright, and I don't know of any way
>
>
> Huh?
> The windows console is fast, among the fastest
> I have ever used, BUT you must have the video
> driver for your specific card.


I'm on a laptop and don't have a card, a Compaq Evo N610c
with XP pro. I tried to update drivers from HP with no obvious
effect. In any case mintty was a lot faster with no obvious drawbacks
yet. I can appreciate there may be some issues but using the
whole CPU while it scrolled by a rate just fast enough for
reading seemed a bit odd. mintty is unreadably fast
and probably some of cpu time goes to disk IO in my benchmark
taskamanager test with cat :) IIRC, "dir" on a 4 Megahertz Z-80 computer wa=
s at least as fast.=20



> If you just have the generic VGA driver, it is slow,
> and other things are noticably too.
>
>
> I haven't seen a faster graphical console, but text consoles are also fas=
t.
>
>
> Also being in bash seems slower.
> I usually set PATH=3Dc:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% but don't use bash interactivel=
y.
> You might try that.
> Being in cmd preserves the nice F8 command line completion against histor=
y feature
> that I haven't found elsewhere.
>
>
>
> - Jay
>
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