Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-20 Thread Jeff Zaroyko
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > So for mingw32-make our wine startup latencies are essentially identical > (near 150 ms) and substantially worse than the Windows numbers (30 ms) and > much worse than the Linux numbers (~1 ms).  "make" startup latency matters > for builds

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-06-20 11:16+1000 Jeff Zaroyko wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Thanks very much Jeff, for providing some independent timing numbers for startup latency which are an order of magnitude (!) smaller than mine. So what is different about our wine platforms to c

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-19 Thread Jeff Zaroyko
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Thanks very much Jeff, for providing some independent timing numbers for > startup latency which are an order of magnitude (!) smaller than mine. > So what is different about our wine platforms to cause that huge > difference?  More below. >

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Thanks very much Jeff, for providing some independent timing numbers for startup latency which are an order of magnitude (!) smaller than mine. So what is different about our wine platforms to cause that huge difference? More below. On 2010-06-19 12:55+1000 Jeff Zaroyko wrote: Windows: $ time

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-18 Thread Jeff Zaroyko
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 18 June 2010 20:12, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> That would be a most interesting comparison.  In computer terms 150 ms is an >> absolutely enormous time that allows something like 150 million (!) >> operations to occur on modern PC's.  So I

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 June 2010 20:12, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > That would be a most interesting comparison.  In computer terms 150 ms is an > absolutely enormous time that allows something like 150 million (!) > operations to occur on modern PC's.  So I would be surprised if Microsoft > Windows required that long

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Paul: Thanks for your ideas on reducing the command startup latency. On 2010-06-18 10:48+0300 Paul Chitescu wrote: Alan, Try to keep the wineserver initialized and running - for example keep a cmd.exe or notepad or something idle (in the same WINEPREFIX). I tried that by running wine cmd

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Chitescu
On Friday 18 June 2010 03:05:08 am Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-06-17 17:07-0400 Mike Kaplinskiy wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin > >> The issue is that Wine builds of software take roughly a factor of 5 longer > >> than the equivalent Linux builds. This issue appear

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-06-17 17:07-0400 Mike Kaplinskiy wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin The issue is that Wine builds of software take roughly a factor of 5 longer than the equivalent Linux builds.  This issue appears to be caused mostly by command startup latency.  [...] I find the comm

Re: Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-17 Thread Mike Kaplinskiy
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Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment

2010-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
_ Linux-powered Science __ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:10:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan W. Irwin To: wine-us...@winehq.org Subject: Re: [Wine] Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment On 2010-06-11 18:09-0700 A