Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems

[greenup greenup <greenup at gmail dot com>]

This is an old problem, the last I heard on it was something along the lines of:
"Cygwin's functionality/compatibility/robustness improved in necessary
ways, but performance was required to suffer"
>From a hearsay perspective, it appears to be related to fork/exec
performance, and more specifically probably related to proper memory
allocation/management.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-05/msg00387.html

I'd say "Try using Colinux", but they haven't gotten their 64 bit act
together yet.  (barely decided they're going to try)

One other time I was frustrated and got 50% improvement using a
smaller shell, (sh) but really that's a drop in the bucket,
performance-wise.

-greenup

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:41 PM, StephenBartlett
<stephen.bartlett.us@gmail.com> wrote:

    Same problem here. Has anyone figured out what it is yet ?
    Vincent Richomme-2 wrote:
    > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:19:36 -0600, David Morgan <dmorgan@aechelon.com>
    >>...

    >>      We use cygwin ...
    >> everything runs extremely slow

...

    > My QuadCore 3.GHz with 4GB feels like an old 386 when running cygwin on
    > Windows 7 64 bits!

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