On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: [...] > bash.exe-3.1$ which echo > /z/home/wine/newstart1/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/echo.exe > > bash.exe-3.1$ time echo "hello" > hello > > real 0m0.000s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s > > This shows there is at least one command (echo) available under wine > that executes with essentially zero latency. So the problem cannot be > the time wine takes to read the executable file > (/z/home/wine/newstart1/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/echo.exe in this case). But > the rest of the commands I tried had latencies near 1 second. (I only > report the second run in each case to make sure as much as possible is > cached in memory for maximum speed.)
Aside from any actual slowdown, this test is not accurate - echo is a shell builtin. Try timing running the actual echo executable (with full path) rather than just "echo" (which will run the builtin).