On Mar  1 02:08, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> > I've just uploaded a new snapshot to http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> I've sent a reply with testing details, but it may have been caught by SPAM
> deflection for "excess use of foreign language".
> Please disregard this notification, if a message will finally come through.
> 
> > Please try it out.  Average timings from your environment (process
> > startup, and calling `id') would be nice.
> 
> Oh, and I thought of a way to test only invocation times.
> I ran /bin/true alot...
> 
> db_cache: no
> Timer 2  Elapsed: 0:00:00,75
> Stable (+-0.2 regardless of current credentials.)
> 
> db_cache: yes
> Timer 2  Elapsed: 0:00:00,85 (current user)
> Timer 2  Elapsed: 0:00:00,75 (different user)
> Unstable results. (I.e. vary by ~.10 in both cases.)
> 
> Default caching settings.
> Timer 2  Elapsed: 0:00:01,15
> Unstable results. (I.e. vary by ~.15 or more in all cases.)

So the process start takes 0.3 secs extra for you.  Is that feasible?
Would you rather keep the new "db_cache" setting as an option?  What
do you think is the best default, objectively spoken?


Corinna

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