[CALL FOR TESTING] Cygwin-3.6.0

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sat Feb 22 11:19:13 GMT 2025


On Feb 21 14:35, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> I rebased msys2's msys2-runtime fork of cygwin on top of cygwin's master
> branch, and then rebased git-for-windows' msys2-runtime on top of THAT.
> 
> 1. Git for Windows's test suite still passes with that (which is nice, it
> tended to hang when we did this with 3.5.5).
> 
> 2. This seems to have fixed a severe performance regression in Curl's test
> suite (https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16217) that I was recently
> looking into.  My research tracked it down to c7fe29f ("Cygwin: pipe:
> Restore blocking mode of read pipe on close()/raw_read()"), reverting that
> got performance back to normal.  The fhandler/pipe.cc code changed
> significantly in master vs 3.5.

This sounds a bit ambiguous to me.

Do you see this performance regression with the latest 3.6.0 test
release, or does it fix this performance regression?


Corinna


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