On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 08:05, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 18/12/2023 07:53, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 07:49, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> > > wrote: > >> > > >> > >> Is your cygserver running ? > > > > Yes, Cygserver is running > > > > Dan > > Hi Dan, > > the fact that you have only a factor 2 to 4 compared to WSL and Debian > tell me that Cygwin is very effective as User space enviroment. > > > 1. time find . >/dev/null > Cygwin 86 seconds > WSL 23 seconds > Debian 19 seconds > > 2. time find . -ls >/dev/null > Cygwin 129 seconds > WSL 38 seconds > Debian 32 seconds > > 3. time grep -r -E NOMATCH 2>/dev/null > Cygwin 390 seconds > WSL 144 seconds > Debian 141 seconds > > Cygwin can not go faster than the engine below and there are > several cubersome tricks to handle the POSIX compliance > > I have seen worst timing trying to emulate Unix Layer on top of > a not supporting Microsoft environment.
Sorry, but I disagree. I think that Cygwin could compete with WSL in terms of performance. I think the issue is just bad symlink emulation for filesystems which do not need symlink emulation. Dan -- Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
