Re: Notable performance improvement in 64-bit build

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>]

Hi Ivan,

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Ivan Todoroski wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm just curious, has there been any special focus on performance
> improvements in the 64-bit version compared to 32-bit?
>
> I'm asking because I recently upgraded from 32-bit to 64-bit Cygwin, and I
> noticed that my bash prompt would show up noticeably quicker when I opened a
> new Cygwin shell (I have a rather complicated ~/.profile script, so the
> delay is actually visible to the eye).

Do you have the same .profile in both installations?
Do you have the same bash-completion package (often the most
time-consuming part of bash startup)?

Csaba
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