The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* gawk-5.1.1-1
The gawk package contains the GNU version of awk, a text
processing utility. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming
language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and
reformatting jobs.
Install the ga
I/O to/from /dev/zero or /dev/null could be special-cased.
Benchmarking file system performance can be fraught.
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Version 20211029-1 of neomutt has been uploaded.
The command line mail reader neomutt reached version 20211029.
On GitHub it is possible to find the changelog for the new release:
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/releases
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Hello,
if cygwin was updated to these package versions: itcl 4.1.1, itk 4.1.0,
iwidgets 4.1.1
the package git://sourceware.org/git/insight.git, a very good
GUI-frontend to gdb, would be available on cygwin again.
Attached are the cygport files with necessary modifications the
maintainer of i
On 10/29/2021 11:44 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
AIUI it's a fundamental part of the trade-offs that NTFS makes:
compared to common Linux file systems like ext4, NTFS is much slower
at things like parsing directory structures (which is a necessary part
of opening any given file). In the same way th
There are a bunch of different possibilities
(*) temporary files - there was an improvement here in recent cygwin versions which means that if your machine has lots
of memory and your program creates lot of temporary files, then it will now be significantly faster
(*) file name lookup - linux
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 10:36, Eliot Moss wrote:
> I think a lot of us know that fork() under Cygwin is slower than on Linux and
> have some grasp of why. But I have noticed that file access is rather lower
> under Cygwin as well. My "poster child" for this is running latex. I am
> working on wr
[Sending announcement once more to reinforce the deprecation notes]
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
* cygwin-3.3.1-1
* cygwin-devel-3.3.1-1
* cygwin-doc-3.3.1-1
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IMP
On 29/10/2021 00:37, Peter A. Castro wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 07:24:59PM +0100, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
On 28/10/2021 17:14, Peter A. Castro wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 11:14:59AM +0100, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
Greetings, Hamish,
On 25/10/2021 17:37, Peter A. Castro wrot
Sorry, it could depend on what we mean by "file access", so allow me to try to
clarify. I am grateful of your data since they show that raw data handling
speed is good. But to read a file you have to open it. I suspect that file
lookup and opening may be an issue. Which remains me, I should
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 10:35:08 +0100
Eliot Moss wrote:
> I think a lot of us know that fork() under Cygwin is slower than on Linux and
> have some grasp of why. But I have noticed that file access is rather lower
> under Cygwin as well. My "poster child" for this is running latex. I am
> working o
Dear Cygwiners -
I think a lot of us know that fork() under Cygwin is slower than on Linux and
have some grasp of why. But I have noticed that file access is rather lower
under Cygwin as well. My "poster child" for this is running latex. I am
working on writing a book, which includes a huge nu
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