A Simple Real World Benchmark for Cygwin

[Michael Hoffman]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Rick Richardson wrote:

> Certainly, some performance degradation under CygWin could be expected
> and tolerated.  But not a factor of 30X or more.  IMHO, of course.

No! We should not tolerate any performance degradation under Cygwin
WHATSOEVER.  Cygwin should run faster than native Linux. Cygwin should run
faster than native Linux on a faster computer. Cygwin running on an aging
Windows 95 486 with automatic virus checking running should run faster
than a brand-new dual-processor Xeon system running on Linux. If the
developers stopped kicking dogs long enough to actually do some work, this
would already be a reality.

For a slightly more useful response, with slightly less sarcasm (but not
that much less :-]) check:

<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg02076.html>
-- 
Michael Hoffman <grouse@mail.utexas.edu>
The University of Texas at Austin


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