On Oct 28 14:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 28 12:37, Roland Schwingel wrote: > > Any clues? I just made an additional test compiling stock > > libxml2-2.6.32 using the stock gcc3 coming with both cygwin versions > > and I am coming to roughly the same numbers. Is 1.7 truly slower > > than 1.5 or aren't all final optimizations done right now? > > Whether 1.7 is faster or slower depends on what you're doing and on what > OS you're running. For instance, scanning local directories is about > 60% faster in 1.7 while starting lots of processes is about 10% slower > on Vista but about 5% faster on XP, according to my testing. Further > optimization will be a task for post-1.7.1, while for 1.7.1 itself we're > looking primarily for functionality. > > Having said that, if you find source code in Cygwin which could be > improved, feel free to point it out.
...or, even better, send patches (*). Corinna (*) http://cygwin.com/contrib.html -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple