Bryan Thrall wrote: You're right about true being built-in, but we still don't know from your examples whether the problem is from forking or from IO. Try replacing 'true' in Jeremy's loop with '/bin/true'. Comparison between the two should give us an idea of the forking cost, without IO getting in the way.
----- I had to reduce to 100 iterations. On Linux: real 0m0.448s user 0m0.244s sys 0m0.220s On Cygwin: real 0m48.411s user 0m15.005s sys 0m18.520s So basically a factor of 100... again points to forking or Vista process start slowness. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
