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Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 02:18:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:07:03AM +0400, Fedin Pavel wrote:
>> Not to discourage you but there will be a fairly low tolerance for much
>> of a complexity change or almost any performance degradation. Cygwin's
>> performance is a regular source of complaints on this list (and
>> elsewhere).
>
> By the way... Right now i'm testing 64-bit Cygwin, and it appears to be
>significantly faster. I wonder, did you do anything special to achieve this
>? Or does this mean just that 32-bit API on 64-bit Windows is slow ?
The 64-bit port employed fewer hippos. As it turns out, they were terrible
coders.
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