On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:32:04PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >Chris, > >On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:36:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:50:16AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >> >BTW, I tried to give cygcheck from the 2003-Sep-08 snapshot a ride. >> >The ChangeLog and diff seem to indicate the required changes have >> >been completed. Unfortunately, my timing showed no difference and >> >objdump showed no dependency on Mingw zlib: >> > >> > $ objdump -p cygcheck.exe | fgrep 'DLL Name:' >> > DLL Name: msvcrt.dll >> > DLL Name: msvcrt.dll >> > DLL Name: ADVAPI32.DLL >> > DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll >> > >> >Is the above cockpit error on my part? >> >> Well, sort of, if you are expecting cygcheck to be linked with a mingw >> zlib DLL. zlib is linked statically. > >Doh! > >> I don't know why you aren't seeing a speedup. It's substantial on my >> system. On my PII 500 at work, the difference is 55 seconds for the >> new cygcheck and 1:29 on the old. That's not as good as my previously >> posted figures but it should still be noticeable. In fact, if you are >> running from a console window you can even see the difference in that >> the title bar doesn't flicker. > >I see a minor speed up (now) -- 1:24 versus 1:18. Note this is on my >laptop. Maybe the disk subsystem is so slow as to dominate the >throughput?
In that case, loading gzip.exe once for every package file should have shown a substantial penalty. Maybe you have fewer packages loaded than I do? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
