dramatic slowdown of C code

[apjaworski at mmm dot com]

Hi,

I am not sure if you are aware of this, but the recent upgrade of the
Cygwin DLL (to version 1.3.11-3) caused a dramatic (3 to 7 fold) slowdown
of gcc compiled code.

The code is a preprocessor of large text files.  It essentially reads a
file (up to 1,500,000 lines) and writes a reformatted file (essentially the
same number of lines).  It seems like the slowdown occurs during file IO.
I am noticing 3-fold decrease on reads and 7-fold decrease on writes.

I routinely use the setup utility to keep my Cygwin environment up to date.
Is it safe to downgrade the cygwin module to 1.3.10 (I just downloaded the
cygwin-1.3.10-1.tar.bz2).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Andy

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Andy Jaworski
Engineering Systems Technology Center
3M Center, 518-1-01
St. Paul, MN 55144-1000
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