Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Ralf Habacker wrote:


>>>>Interesting, why is it faster when running a binary that doesn't
>>>>depend on cygwin1.dll after swapping the DLL?  Some Win caching mechanism?
>>>
>>>
>>>I recognized this caching behavior with KDE/cygwin too. Under  
>>>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kde-cygwin/tools/fillmem/ there is a 
>>>tool, which could be used to minimize this influcence by clearing this 
> 
> cache. 
> 
>>>See the README for more informations. 
>>
>>GlobalMemoryStatusEx is only available on Win2k and WinXP.
>>
> 
> Does anyone know a similar function under win9x  ? 

Danny Smith wrote a replacement:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-02/msg02045.html


Gerrit
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