Aaron Gray wrote: > Weird I was getting very long compile times for GCC and on using 'time' was > getting indications that make was only getting 25% of total system time. > > I'll see if it is repeatable on another system.
Hint: Cygwin is slow. Emulating fork() takes a complicated dance between parent and child. A lot of this involves one waiting for the other to complete a stage of initialization. Thus, a Cygwin process that spawns a lot of children does a lot of waiting. It is a price you pay for being able to compile POSIX source unmodified on Windows. Also, I/O. Also, Cygwin is around ten years old now, and people have been complaining that it's slow for approximately 9 years and 364 days. Do you really think that if speeding it up was a matter of just setting some scheduling flag somewhere it would have gone unnoticed all this time? Brian -- 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/
