BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 5/21/2013 2:18 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:07:03AM +0400, Fedin Pavel wrote:
>>> Not to discourage you but there will be a fairly low tolerance for much
>>> of a complexity change or almost any performance degradation.  Cygwin's
>>> performance is a regular source of complaints on this list (and
>>> elsewhere).
>>
>> By the way... Right now i'm testing 64-bit Cygwin, and it appears to be
>> significantly faster. I wonder, did you do anything special to achieve this
>> ? Or does this mean just that 32-bit API on 64-bit Windows is slow ?
>
> The 64-bit port employed fewer hippos.  As it turns out, they were terrible
> coders.

And hippos aside (I think we all know how difficult it is to do that!), 
64-bit proggies on 64-bit CPUs are supposed to be a little zippier anyway.

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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