gprof reported run times off by factor 1.56 on some machines. Has timer tick rate changed ?

[Alexander J. Herrmann]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 02:12:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
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>>Guy Larri wrote:
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>>>gprof reports run times 1.56 times too fast on some machines under cygwin.
>>>On another cygwin installation it reports the correct run time.
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>>Yikes!  Now Cygwin is too fast!!  Please someone do *something* to slow it
>>down!  This is just not acceptable!!!  ;-)
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>I am *so* sick of people complaining about how fast cygwin is.  Cygwin is
>an emulation layer!  It emulates linux!  Linux is faster than Windows so
>of *course* Cygwin will be faster than Windows, too.
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Oh, I get it. If my processor is to slow I just have to get a emulation 
prog. for a faster (maybe multiprocessor) one and run everything on top 
of it. than maybe everuthing goes so fast that I cannot even see it.

>Cheesh.
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>cgf
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