Cygwin Performance and stat()

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 6/4/2010 12:37 PM, Christopher Wingert wrote:
> So here is an example of a performance gain by not using cygwin stat().  I
> did this patch in about an hour (with the help of some git code), so I
> wouldn't recommend it for any production use.
>
> On a dry run rsync from my local drive to my NAS (105GB, 34k files, 4k
> directories).  The current release cygwin rsync did it in [36m:43s], with
> the patch (below) applied, it dropped to [04m:48s].

But your patch only does a portion of the work that stat() is supposed to
do.  I don't think there's any question that ignoring the need to fill in
certain stat fields will save time.  But that's not really a workable
alternative either, if that's what you're implying.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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