On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Hmmm...I wonder...do you know if Interix setups COW pages on fork? > If so, why in the heck would it perform so much more slowly than cygwin > when running the same tasks (shell scripts and such that do lots of little > forks).... its performance was pretty bad next to cygwin, though that was > under XP, and several years back that I tested, so it may have changed).
Last year I investigated Services For Unix on Vista and found it to be roughly on par with Cygwin in terms if compilation time of a complex C++ project. > Eric Blake wrote: >> Put yourself in Microsoft's shoes - why would you want to make it easier >> for free software If they wanted that, they would surely decide to enhance Windows Services For Unix; after all they paid good money for the company that made Interix. But, since SFU doesn't even have a proper poll(2) implementation, I'm not holding my breath. Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- 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