Re: Cygwin 1.5 vs 1.7: speed

2009-10-28 Thread Roland Schwingel
Hi Corrinna... > On Oct 28 14:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Whether 1.7 is faster or slower depends on what you're doing and on what > > OS you're running. For instance, scanning local directories is about > > 60% faster in 1.7 while starting lots of processes is about 10% slower > > on Vist

Re: Cygwin 1.5 vs 1.7: speed

2009-10-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 28 14:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 28 12:37, Roland Schwingel wrote: > > Any clues? I just made an additional test compiling stock > > libxml2-2.6.32 using the stock gcc3 coming with both cygwin versions > > and I am coming to roughly the same numbers. Is 1.7 truly slower > > than 1.

Re: Cygwin 1.5 vs 1.7: speed

2009-10-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 28 12:37, Roland Schwingel wrote: > Any clues? I just made an additional test compiling stock > libxml2-2.6.32 using the stock gcc3 coming with both cygwin versions > and I am coming to roughly the same numbers. Is 1.7 truly slower > than 1.5 or aren't all final optimizations done right now?

Cygwin 1.5 vs 1.7: speed

2009-10-28 Thread Roland Schwingel
Hi... When evaluating 1.7 I do also conduct some speed tests with cygwin 1.5. I am using 1.5.25 und 1.7.0-62 on windows xp sp3 32bit here for my tests on a quad core machine with enough ram. It seems that 1.7 is around 10-25% slower in my scenarios here. I did some compilation tests. Each te