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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:12:44 +0400
- Subject: Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
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- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Warren Young!
> On 2/13/2014 09:07, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, Steven Penny!
>>
>>> - Do you have any benchmarks available? Or instructions on how we could test the
>>> speed of the new system?
>>
>> In the end of the day, this should affect program startup times. But in home
>> environment, the difference will be negligible.
> Whose home are we talking about here? :)
<3
> In my home, we type commands like ./configure && make && make install
> That sort of thing may launch and kill hundreds of programs in a short
> period of time.
> If we save only 1/20 second (say 0.1 sec down to 0.05) per process
> launch, we can save tens of seconds on such a command sequence.
> I look forward to testing this.
I'm, already. It seems, I'm ought to retract my "negligible" statement.
Even simple diff'ing is way faster now.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 14.02.2014, <10:39>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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