Re: Can cygwin boot faster?

2009-04-30 Thread Barry Kelly
Lenik wrote: > Because of the slow speed, when I'm programming with cygwin, I will > carefully to invoke command calls to the cygwin executables, to reduce > the start up cost. I've sometimes wondered if it would be worth it to have busybox ported to Cygwin, just to cut out the forking cost for

RE: Can cygwin boot faster?

2009-04-30 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Lenik wrote on April 29, 2009, at 7:44 PM: > I feel it has been slightly faster in cygwin-1.7 than cygwin-1.6. But > it is still very slow compared to msys-1.10. What does cygwin indeed > execute when start up? I found that bash-completion slowed startup a LOT. If you have it, you might try not

Re: Can cygwin boot faster?

2009-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Lenik wrote: I feel it has been slightly faster in cygwin-1.7 than cygwin-1.6. But it is still very slow compared to msys-1.10. What does cygwin indeed execute when start up? Is it loaded too much, for example the network libraries? I noticed that paths leading with two slashes '//', which is