On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:13 PM, greenup greenup <gree...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is an old problem, the last I heard on it was something along the lines > of: > "Cygwin's functionality/compatibility/robustness improved in necessary > ways, but performance was required to suffer" > From a hearsay perspective, it appears to be related to fork/exec > performance, and more specifically probably related to proper memory > allocation/management. > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-05/msg00387.html > > I'd say "Try using Colinux", but they haven't gotten their 64 bit act > together yet. (barely decided they're going to try) > > One other time I was frustrated and got 50% improvement using a > smaller shell, (sh) but really that's a drop in the bucket, > performance-wise.
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