From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heribert Dahms To: "'scott@sabami.seaslug.org'" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: Cygwin performance (was [ANN] PW32 the...) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:43:00 -0000 Message-id: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A002DE964@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> X-SW-Source: 2000-03/msg00371.html Hi Scott, are you hardwired to 'ls', 'ls -l' or (like me) 'll'? My stock b20 'ls' spits out only filenames! Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Blachowicz [SMTP:scott@sabami.seaslug.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 1994 01:29 > To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: Re: Cygwin performance (was [ANN] PW32 the...) > > Geoffrey Noer wrote: > > > ... > > Interesting. We have been trying to improve (and succeeding in > improving) > > Cygwin's runtime performance but that's been done comparing Cygwin > to > > Cygwin-past and not so much by doing benchmarks against other > systems I > > think. > > Great! Have you found any way to improve the performance of commands > like 'ls' > against remotely mounted file systems? I frequently have things like > > NET USE * \\SERVER\SHARE > > where SERVER is located on the far end of a PPTP link to a system a > few > thousand miles (18-22 hops over the Internet via an ISDN connection on > my end) > and doing an 'ls' is unuseably slow (and I think I've tried various > releases > from b17 to b20.1). So, I usually try to remember to use the "command > prompt" > and the DIR command which works just fine. I also wave perl scripts > over the > remote directories (scripts that do file globbing and file system > traversals) > and they run fine...but they don't try to get all the file info that > an 'ls > -l' would - ought to try out an 'ls' command from the Perl Power Tools > set > sometime... > > At any rate...since 'ls' is hardwired into my fingers and I wander > into these > directories often enough, using cygwin can be painful, so I haven't > gotten > fully into playing with it yet. > > > Have people run any benchmarks comparing Cygwin, Uwin, NuTcracker, > Interix, > > anything else out there? > > That would be useful info! > > Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com