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Re: Does cygwin slow things down


On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:19:29AM -0700, Bill Smith wrote:
>Thus spoke: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att
>dot net>
>
>>Slower than... not running at all?
>
>Almost, and yes, to the point where cygwin is so slow that it is not a
>practical foundation for program development.  Since the .10 revision,
>literally seconds go by between simple operations such as when executing a
>.sh list of file copies.
>
>Under DOS, images of the Harbour compiler (http://www.harbour.org) are
>downloaded from Sourceforge, then cygwin (gcc) is used to build images of
>the compiler, all the while keeping cygwin current.  Cygwin has proved an
>excellent platform, until the last two major revisions.  What used to take
>only several minutes to run through the makefile now can extend beyond
>twenty!
>
>The computer here is an old Pentium 166 with 64 mbytes of memory, but the
>response has been quite adequate.  I would expect even a faster system would
>not fully mask whatever is inhibiting the current performance of cygwin.
>
>Sorry I can't be more helpful or more specific.

Then why bother posting at all?  Most of us are obviously using cygwin with
no problems.

Saying "It's slow and I'm not going to provide any details" must be a nice
venting exercise for you but it isn't going to fix your problem.

cgf

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