On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:51:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 24 April 2006 16:53, Neil E. Deeds wrote: >>Anyone have an idea as to why Perl runs this code so much slower under >>Cygwin? > >Look up "emulation layer" in any good technical dictionary :)
But, you forget. Cygwin is emulating linux and linux is faster than Windows. Dave, you have to think about these things before you just fire off email! The real solution here is to just make sure that all of the time functions in Cygwin report figures which support the fact that Cygwin is as fast as Linux. 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/
