From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8344 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2002 18:37:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8337 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2002 18:37:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO darius.concentric.net) (207.155.198.79) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Sep 2002 18:37:10 -0000 Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.198.83]) by darius.concentric.net [Concentric SMTP Routing 1.0] id g82Ib9s06346 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:37:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Clemens.cris.com (da003d0401.sjc-ca.osd.concentric.net [64.1.1.146]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id OAA05440; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:37:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020902112749.02b7e0e0@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 11:37:00 -0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: A Simple Real World Benchmark for Cygwin In-Reply-To: References: <20020902101958.A27819@mn.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 Michael, You are absolutely right. We (you and I, at least) are Americans, and we deserve every last damn thing we want and we deserve it right now--yesterday, really. Based on my experience in data compression, I might be able to help with the problem of making Cygwin faster than the software and hardware on which it runs. To wit, I've created a compression algorithm that will compress any and all inputs to a size smaller than that of the original. I've applied this compression to the program itself, iteratively, until I've got the whole thing down to one bit. Here it is: 1. Feel free to use it in any way you wish. I think that given that I could do this, I can solve the problem that Cygwin sometimes fail to complete a computation by the time the enter key has returned to its raised position. My Maxwell's daemon is working well, too. It's nice to have on these hot days. All the above are patent pending, of course. Randall Schulz At 09:06 2002-09-02, Michael Hoffman wrote: >On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Rick Richardson wrote: > > > Certainly, some performance degradation under CygWin could be expected > > and tolerated. But not a factor of 30X or more. IMHO, of course. > >No! We should not tolerate any performance degradation under Cygwin >WHATSOEVER. Cygwin should run faster than native Linux. Cygwin should run >faster than native Linux on a faster computer. Cygwin running on an aging >Windows 95 486 with automatic virus checking running should run faster >than a brand-new dual-processor Xeon system running on Linux. If the >developers stopped kicking dogs long enough to actually do some work, this >would already be a reality. > >For a slightly more useful response, with slightly less sarcasm (but not >that much less :-]) check: > > >-- >Michael Hoffman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/