On May 19 06:47, Reinhard Nissl wrote: > Hi, > > running the following command sequence in bash yields little numbers > compared to a real unix system: > > while true ; do date ; done | uniq -c > > 15 Thu May 15 10:40:22 2008 > 16 Thu May 15 10:40:23 2008 > 17 Thu May 15 10:40:24 2008 > 17 Thu May 15 10:40:25 2008 > 17 Thu May 15 10:40:26 2008 > 16 Thu May 15 10:40:27 2008 > 17 Thu May 15 10:40:28 2008 > 16 Thu May 15 10:40:29 2008 > > Is there a chance to speedup performance?
Cygwin's fork() implementation is *not* deliberately slow. Take a look into the sources, file fork.cc, and see what it has to do. Having said that, of course http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
