On 24 April 2006 18:17, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
That feature isn't implemented yet. PTC though!
> 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.
Cygwin already *is* four times faster than windows, but it's implemented in
scaled-down step time. One second for cygwin is about equivalent to pi
microfortnights on a real linux system.
cheers,
DaveK
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