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Jeremy Bopp wrote:

While I believe the usual forking performance issue is probably the
largest factor for your problem, you *are* running an instance of
Windows Explorer.  It's displaying your desktop which as you indicate
above is holding the folder containing your work area.  My guess is that
you're seeing those usage spikes because of that fact.  Try working in a
tree which is outside of your desktop, maybe in /tmp, and see if that
makes any difference for you.

I can't reproduce the slowness you're seeing in general however, even in
a directory on the desktop, but then I'm running with XP rather than Vista.

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I didn't achieve any noticeable speedup, and the echo | cut slowness is
still there irrespective of directory (no surprise since it doesn't touch
any files except /usr/bin/cut). 

What do you say we focus on the echo | cut slowness problem, since it
eliminates lots of variables and is much easier to test.