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Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:13 PM, greenup greenup <greenup@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Port cygwin to win64 via mingw-w64 :) :)
(We'll help if you can do it...)
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