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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:09:22 +0100
From: Roland Schwingel <roland DOT schwingel AT onevision DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.5 vs 1.7: speed
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Hi Corrinna...

 > On Oct 28 14:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
 > > Whether 1.7 is faster or slower depends on what you're doing and on 
what
 > > OS you're running.  For instance, scanning local directories is about
 > > 60% faster in 1.7 while starting lots of processes is about 10% slower
 > > on Vista but about 5% faster on XP, according to my testing.  Further
 > > optimization will be a task for post-1.7.1, while for 1.7.1 itself 
we're
 > > looking primarily for functionality.
Understood. And the already achieved things like long pathnames and utf8 
support
are things which where highly needed.

 > > Having said that, if you find source code in Cygwin which could be
 > > improved, feel free to point it out.
 >
 > ...or, even better, send patches (*).
I will for sure do more testings and maybe also debugging and whenever I 
find something useful - be asured that I'll post here... :-)

Roland


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