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RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:49:20 -0500
- Subject: RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> From: Dave Korn
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:23 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: cygwin Perl 5x slower than ActiveState?
>
> On 24 April 2006 18:17, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:51:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> On 24 April 2006 16:53, Neil E. Deeds wrote:
> >>> Anyone have an idea as to why Perl runs this code so much slower
> >>> under Cygwin?
> >>
> >> Look up "emulation layer" in any good technical dictionary :)
> >
> > But, you forget. Cygwin is emulating linux and linux is
> faster than
> > Windows.
>
> That feature isn't implemented yet. PTC though!
>
> > Dave, you have to think about these things before you just fire off
> > email!
> >
> > The real solution here is to just make sure that all of the time
> > functions in Cygwin report figures which support the fact
> that Cygwin
> > is as fast as Linux.
>
> Cygwin already *is* four times faster than windows, but
> it's implemented in scaled-down step time. One second for
> cygwin is about equivalent to pi microfortnights on a real
> linux system.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
> --
> Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
Ah, yeah, excuse me gentlemen, I believe you're on the wrong list.
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Gary R. Van Sickle