Optimize cygwin on recent windows version (Vista and Seven)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:58:18AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Vincent R. wrote:
>>The next step would be to do some profiling but I am not expert with
>>gprof.  I think that Dave Korn already did something like that, I hope
>>he will comment.
>
>I'm afraid you may have misremembered, or anyway, I don't recall the
>occasion you're talking about.  As far as I know, the newer OSes are
>just dog slow, and I think the mingw figures you posted probably
>confirm that.  That doesn't mean that we mightn't be able to find a
>critical hotspot by some profiling and figure a way round it OTOH.

Heh.  "We".  Heh heh.

cgf