Kelvin Lee wrote:
>
> For 1.3.[12]:
>
> Noticed from the behaviour of man. It took long long time before returning
> "No manual entry for x" for unavailable page x.
> For 1.1.7, man returned the message almost immediately.
>
> Dug into the source code of man and did some profiling, I found that more
> than 95% of time was spent on the system call readdir(). And that is several
> hundred times slower than 1.1.7.
>
> Will try to produce a patch. But need to figure out how to compile
> cygwin1.dll first.
>
First before compiling try out the most recent snapshot. AFA compiling
the Cygwin source is concerned, check the FAQ.
--
Earnie.
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