On Feb 13, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> If we save only 1/20 second (say 0.1 sec down to 0.05) per process launch, we > can save tens of seconds on such a command sequence. > > I look forward to testing this. I decided to build R, since it’s big but fairly self-contained: With a 4-processor XP VM, I can’t tell the difference between 1.7.28-2 and 1.7.29s (20140213) in terms of build time. +/- a second or two over about 4.3 CPU-minutes of build time. Configure time doesn’t change much, either. My nsswitch.conf: passwd: db group: db I’ve tried it with /etc/files present and removed. Waah. -- 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
