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Re: performance of cygwin32


The slowness comes from the cygwin.dll emulation of unix.  If you 
install Sergey's coolview update you will notice an increase in speed;  
but, it still won't match solaris.  Win32 appears to be slow anyway, 
especially Windows 95.

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>From: epeschko@den-mdev1.tci.com (Ed Peschko)
>Subject: performance of cygwin32
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:06:06 -0700 (MST)
>
>hey - 
>
>I've found after installing cdk.exe taht the performance of cygwin32 is 
>about 5-10 times slower than my solaris box. 
>
>Is this due to the underlying win32 api, or is it due to cygwin32, or 
is it 
>just me not doing something correctly?
>
>Thanks much,
>
>Ed
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