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David Frascone wrote:
1) Has anyone seen this behavior before? If so, do you remember which functions may be causing it (hg vs git speed under cygwin maybe?) 2) Any thoughts on trying to profile a prompt and/or shell script, if I pull it out of the prompt function
Anytime you have to call an external process, you pay a multiplied penalty on cygwin -- 1st linux process spawning, while costly, are less than Windows, and 2) cygwin has to emulate the posix semantics on windows -- to which it is not friendly. If you could somehow cache recent data in data struct and only updated ever 10 minutes with a live call, that might help...? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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