From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-25T22:43:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How do I tell when I'm on Cygwin?

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Robert Oliver wrote:

> These are some really interesting results!  I guess the benchmark you use
> can make a big difference.  The one I used had heavy IO, which might be part
> of it.  Although you would expect the cygwin dll to impart some overhead
> there.

on our machines copying files with FileUtils.cp_r is just as fast as 'cp -r' -
very fast or slow disks seems to contraindicate benchmarks which do much io.
that said, every real world problem tends to do lots of io.  ...ducks!

-a
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