From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-03-20T02:14:45+09:00
Subject: Re: file reading impossibly slow?

Hi,

At Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:52:09 +0900,
Bob Alexander wrote:
> Also, I've got code that compares directories (entry existance and dates)
> for file syncing purposes, and the performance compares differently from
> line-by-line reading:
> 
> o  Under Linux -- fine.
> o  Under mswin32 -- fine.
> o  Under cygwin -- *unreasonably* slow, slower than mswin32 by an order of
> magnitude.

It's well-known that Cygwin's stat() is slow.  It checks #! in
first lines for all files under Win9x.

If you use WinNT, including W2k(= NT 5.0) and WinXP(= NT 5.1),
it improves by setting `ntsec' or something (sorry, I forget)
in CYGWIN environment variable.

-- 
Nobu Nakada