From: Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>
Date: 2001-09-21T19:37:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21485] Re: Path walking on windows

[Ed Sinjiashvili]
> Ok, I grabbed ruby-1.6.5 and compiled it with msvc6.0. My script now
> runs about 2 sec - faster than python one. This is great! In my
> previous post I forgot to mention that I've tried
> ruby-1.6.2-cygwin. Should I blame cygwin for that tremendous
> slowdowns?

I think so... the 'ls' command is sometimes painfully slow under
cygwin. I suspect cygwin does some extra processing of file names to
bridge Unix and Windows paths.

// Niklas