[ANNOUNCEMENT] gawk 5.1.1-1

2021-10-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * gawk-5.1.1-1 The gawk package contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs. Install the

gawk 5.1.1-1

2021-10-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * gawk-5.1.1-1 The gawk package contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs. Install the

Re: Curiosity about file access performance

2021-10-29 Thread bzs
I/O to/from /dev/zero or /dev/null could be special-cased. Benchmarking file system performance can be fraught. -- -Barry Shein, co-author of nfsstones benchmark Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: neomutt-20211029-1

2021-10-29 Thread Federico Kircheis via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
Version 20211029-1 of neomutt has been uploaded. The command line mail reader neomutt reached version 20211029. On GitHub it is possible to find the changelog for the new release: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases Federico -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html

Updated: neomutt-20211029-1

2021-10-29 Thread Federico Kircheis via Cygwin-announce
Version 20211029-1 of neomutt has been uploaded. The command line mail reader neomutt reached version 20211029. On GitHub it is possible to find the changelog for the new release: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases Federico

Request for updates to packages itcl 4.1.1, itk 4.1.0, iwidgets 4.1.1

2021-10-29 Thread Claudius Schnörr via Cygwin
Hello, if cygwin was updated to these package versions: itcl 4.1.1, itk 4.1.0, iwidgets 4.1.1 the package git://sourceware.org/git/insight.git, a very good GUI-frontend to gdb, would be available on cygwin again. Attached are the cygport files with necessary modifications the maintainer of

Re: Curiosity about file access performance

2021-10-29 Thread Eliot Moss
On 10/29/2021 11:44 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: AIUI it's a fundamental part of the trade-offs that NTFS makes: compared to common Linux file systems like ext4, NTFS is much slower at things like parsing directory structures (which is a necessary part of opening any given file). In the same way

Re: Curiosity about file access performance

2021-10-29 Thread Noel Grandin via Cygwin
There are a bunch of different possibilities (*) temporary files - there was an improvement here in recent cygwin versions which means that if your machine has lots of memory and your program creates lot of temporary files, then it will now be significantly faster (*) file name lookup - linux

Re: Curiosity about file access performance

2021-10-29 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 10:36, Eliot Moss wrote: > I think a lot of us know that fork() under Cygwin is slower than on Linux and > have some grasp of why. But I have noticed that file access is rather lower > under Cygwin as well. My "poster child" for this is running latex. I am > working on

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.3.1-1 [with DEPRECATION NOTES]

2021-10-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin
[Sending announcement once more to reinforce the deprecation notes] The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygwin-3.3.1-1 * cygwin-devel-3.3.1-1 * cygwin-doc-3.3.1-1 ==

cygwin 3.3.1-1 [with DEPRECATION NOTES]

2021-10-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce
[Sending announcement once more to reinforce the deprecation notes] The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * cygwin-3.3.1-1 * cygwin-devel-3.3.1-1 * cygwin-doc-3.3.1-1 ==

Re: Snapshot of Cygwin from Windows XP era

2021-10-29 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin
On 29/10/2021 00:37, Peter A. Castro wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 07:24:59PM +0100, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: On 28/10/2021 17:14, Peter A. Castro wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 11:14:59AM +0100, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: Greetings, Hamish, On 25/10/2021 17:37, Peter A. Castro

Re: Curiosity about file access performance

2021-10-29 Thread Eliot Moss
Sorry, it could depend on what we mean by "file access", so allow me to try to clarify. I am grateful of your data since they show that raw data handling speed is good. But to read a file you have to open it. I suspect that file lookup and opening may be an issue. Which remains me, I should

Re: Curiosity about file access performance

2021-10-29 Thread Takashi Yano via Cygwin
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 10:35:08 +0100 Eliot Moss wrote: > I think a lot of us know that fork() under Cygwin is slower than on Linux and > have some grasp of why. But I have noticed that file access is rather lower > under Cygwin as well. My "poster child" for this is running latex. I am > working

Curiosity about file access performance

2021-10-29 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear Cygwiners - I think a lot of us know that fork() under Cygwin is slower than on Linux and have some grasp of why. But I have noticed that file access is rather lower under Cygwin as well. My "poster child" for this is running latex. I am working on writing a book, which includes a huge