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Re: cygwin-1.5.24-2 serious shell execution performance degradation on WinXP x64 SP2
- From: Szymon Lapinski <gandalf at syncad dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:55:24 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.24-2 serious shell execution performance degradation on WinXP x64 SP2
- References: <46DBE9ED.2050803@syncad.com>
Szymon Lapinski wrote:
I'm not sure if this was caused by SP2 or by some of following Windows
updates but it used to work well before SP2, and still works well on
Windows 2000.
(...)
> time gawk 'BEGIN{for(i=1;i<1000;i++){system("true")}}'
> time for i in `seq 1 1000`; do bash -c true; done
I've decided to uninstall Service Pack 2 on one of my WinXP x64 machines
Scripts runs approximately 3 times faster. It's still far from ideal
(comparing to 32bit Windows 2000 performance) but it's a BIG difference.
--
Regards,
Szymon Lapinski
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