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Re: Slowdown after update on Win32 (XP Home)

SZABÓ Gergely schrieb am 06.10.2010 um 23:30 (+0200):
> 
> please see this thread (test scripts included):
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00871.html

Thanks, Gabor - I saw your thread, which reinforces my belief that it is
a Cygwin issue.

> I can only confirm this. Process creation is much slower with 1.7.7
> than it was with 1.5.25. The "fork" script runs 300% slower on my XP
> box.

Another possibility would be a recent Microsoft update.

Am I hallucinating when I think that 100% true Windows utilities like
IPCONFIG, ROUTE and NET are also slower in launching?

> But on the other hand, Marco Atzeri could not confirm this on his XP
> box. I'm sure it's all about time slowing down in the vicinity of
> black holes...

A computational maelstrom, a processing quicksand.

-- 
Michael Ludwig

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