From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-10-02T08:43:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21905] Re: Let's work on Windows support

On Monday 01 October 2001 03:50 pm, Bernard Delm�e wrote:

> One thing that has surprised me is that in my (admittedly limited)
> experience, the cygnus ruby port has performed significantly faster
> than either the mingw or the VC one. This observation is mostly based
> on runs from one single script that does html-parsing through the raa
> 'sgml-parser' module. Throughout the 1.6.x series of interpreters so far,
> the cygwin version has been consistently almost twice as fast as the
> mingw one. I recently compiled 1.6.5 under VC, and the execution speed
> ranked roughly between the other two ones. I find this surprising since
> cygwin introduces an intermediary posix emulation layer which has to
> cost something.

Doesn't VC come with a profiler? Where's the time being spent?

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