Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-16 Thread Pavel Holejsovsky
20021214 snapshot seems to work ok, my testcase below does not fail any more. Thanks! Pavel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:37:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:27:44AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:48:28PM +010

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-15 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 09:46 2002-12-15, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:36:29PM +0100, Arno Waschk wrote: >On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:11:28 -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Absent any further details, this will be a potential problem in 1.3.18. > >If would be more than happy t

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 01:36:29PM +0100, Arno Waschk wrote: >On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:11:28 -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Absent any further details, this will be a potential problem in 1.3.18. > >If would be more than happy to provide further details, but it seems to >be di

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-15 Thread Arno Waschk
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:11:28 -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:47:54AM +0100, Arno Waschk wrote: 2. Configure never complete "finding the maximum length of command-line arguments" test (found in many configures, e. g. gcc-CVS) which used to be lengt

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:47:54AM +0100, Arno Waschk wrote: >2. Configure never complete "finding the maximum length of command-line >arguments" test (found in many configures, e. g. gcc-CVS) which used to be >lengthy but working on 1.3.17. Works fine here. Absent any further details, this wil

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-14 Thread Arno Waschk
Since I am testing 021214 snapshot on my WinME installation, I wanted to report two things: 1. Huge speed improvement here as well! Configure scripts seem to run several times faster. 2. Configure never complete "finding the maximum length of command-line arguments" test (found in many configu

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 09:53:45PM +0100, thomas wrote: > >I've piped several GB for testing purposes (with cat | dd), and input >and output are always the same, so I've yet to encounter that *possible* >data loss. >And nice'd up pipes finally behave like they are supposed to: they are a >bit faste

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-14 Thread thomas
I've piped several GB for testing purposes (with cat | dd), and input and output are always the same, so I've yet to encounter that *possible* data loss. And nice'd up pipes finally behave like they are supposed to: they are a bit faster than their not nice'd up brothers, and not terribly slower l

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-14 Thread fergus
W98/SE, just a timing comparison. As before: this snapshot is knocking spots off the current cygwin1.dll, at least in respect of this one benchtest: take a 80MB file 0.uue and time cat 0.uue | nice --1 dd of=/dev/null # current 1m12s time cat 0.uue | nice --1 dd of=/dev/null # snapshot

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-14 Thread Norman Vine
Christopher Faylor writes: > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:37:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:27:44AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:48:28PM +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Christopher Faylor wro

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:37:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:27:44AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:48:28PM +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:32:

Re: More pipe (and other) improvements in snapshot

2002-12-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:27:44AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:48:28PM +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:32:16AM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: >Any 'tips' as to how to best debug th