From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>, Cygwin-L <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat()
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20010216105803.01952e48@pop.ma.ultranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A8CF411.D0279DA1@etr-usa.com>
At 04:34 AM 2/16/2001, Warren Young wrote:
>"Charles S. Wilson" wrote:
> >
> > If I were porting an old app from unix to cygwin, and wanted to tune
> > performance, I'd much rather do this:
>
>Both you and Jonathan have understood my intent perfectly.
>
>Christopher, please do consider this proposal. It's easy to implement
>-- probably just a few tweaks on Egor's patch -- and it makes it easy to
>gain performance with straightforward patches to affected programs.
>It'd be nice if we can make Cygwin faster, but this proposal has an
>inherent advantage: the calling process _knows_ what it wants, whereas
>Cygwin can only guess or anticipate.
>
>Egor, Jonathan, maybe some benchmarks would help convince Christopher of
>the patch's utility.
Chris sent some email about this yesterday. He's looking at the possibility
of eliminating this problem without changing the API.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-16 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-13 10:36 Jonathan Kamens
2001-02-13 10:56 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-02-13 11:01 ` jik-cygwin
2001-02-13 11:14 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-02-13 11:18 ` jik-cygwin
2001-02-13 11:26 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-02-13 11:35 ` DJ Delorie
2001-02-13 11:46 ` jik-cygwin
2001-02-13 11:54 ` DJ Delorie
2001-02-13 11:56 ` Jonathan Kamens
2001-02-13 12:06 ` DJ Delorie
2001-02-13 12:31 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-02-13 12:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-02-13 12:50 ` DJ Delorie
2001-02-14 0:12 ` Egor Duda
2001-02-14 0:17 ` Robert Collins
2001-02-15 11:47 ` Warren Young
2001-02-15 13:14 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-02-15 14:17 ` Charles S. Wilson
2001-02-16 1:34 ` Warren Young
2001-02-16 8:07 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [this message]
2001-02-16 9:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-02-15 14:17 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-02-15 14:19 ` Jonathan Kamens
2001-02-16 1:14 ` Egor Duda
2001-02-16 1:29 ` Warren Young
2001-02-13 15:28 ` Warren Young
2001-02-14 0:48 ` Lothan
2001-02-13 11:12 ` Earnie Boyd
2001-02-13 11:46 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-02-13 11:09 ` Earnie Boyd
2001-02-13 11:15 ` jik-cygwin
2001-02-13 11:48 ` Earnie Boyd
2001-02-13 11:54 ` jik-cygwin
2001-02-13 12:25 ` DJ Delorie
2001-02-13 12:50 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-02-13 12:51 ` DJ Delorie
2001-02-13 13:37 ` jfaith
2001-02-13 13:50 ` Mumit Khan
2001-02-13 14:13 ` DJ Delorie
2001-02-13 12:11 ` DJ Delorie
2001-02-13 11:24 ` Eric M. Monsler
2001-02-13 11:28 ` jik-cygwin
2001-02-13 12:04 ` Eric M. Monsler
2001-02-13 14:15 Puttkammer, Roman
2001-02-13 14:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-02-14 2:41 Bernard Dautrevaux
2001-02-14 4:46 Bernard Dautrevaux
2001-02-16 9:24 Bernard Dautrevaux
2001-02-16 10:17 ` Christopher Faylor
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