Chris, On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:36:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:50:16AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > >BTW, I tried to give cygcheck from the 2003-Sep-08 snapshot a ride. > >The ChangeLog and diff seem to indicate the required changes have > >been completed. Unfortunately, my timing showed no difference and > >objdump showed no dependency on Mingw zlib: > > > > $ objdump -p cygcheck.exe | fgrep 'DLL Name:' > > DLL Name: msvcrt.dll > > DLL Name: msvcrt.dll > > DLL Name: ADVAPI32.DLL > > DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll > > > >Is the above cockpit error on my part? > > Well, sort of, if you are expecting cygcheck to be linked with a mingw > zlib DLL. zlib is linked statically.
Doh! > I don't know why you aren't seeing a speedup. It's substantial on my > system. On my PII 500 at work, the difference is 55 seconds for the > new cygcheck and 1:29 on the old. That's not as good as my previously > posted figures but it should still be noticeable. In fact, if you are > running from a console window you can even see the difference in that > the title bar doesn't flicker. I see a minor speed up (now) -- 1:24 versus 1:18. Note this is on my laptop. Maybe the disk subsystem is so slow as to dominate the throughput? Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/