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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin


On Feb 14 00:36, Warren Young wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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 decided to build R, since itâs big but fairly self-contained:
> 
> With a 4-processor XP VM, I canât tell the difference between 1.7.28-2 and 1.7.29s (20140213) in terms of build time.  +/- a second or two over about 4.3 CPU-minutes of build time.  Configure time doesnât change much, either.
> 
> My nsswitch.conf:
> 
> passwd: db
> group:  db
> 
> Iâve tried it with /etc/files present and removed.
> 
> Waah.

Don't you worry.  This may be a bad example.  Most of the time the build
spends with actual compiling and stuff, so the time spent in calling
getpwXXX/getgrXXX functions is probably very, very minor.  At least
it didn't get slower :)


Corinna

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