On Feb 14 00:36, Warren Young wrote: > 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.
Don't you worry. This may be a bad example. Most of the time the build spends with actual compiling and stuff, so the time spent in calling getpwXXX/getgrXXX functions is probably very, very minor. At least it didn't get slower :) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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