cygwin: I went back to the desktop computer that I have been using for Cygwin Perl testing: motherboard: Intel DQ67SW processor: Intel Core i7-2600S memory: Corsair CMV8GX3M2A1333C9 2 @ 4 GB disk: Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB OS Name: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional OS Version: 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 See cygcheck-old.txt in the attached tarball for a listing of Cygwin packages installed. 'make test' produced the following result: 99 wallclock secs ( 1.76 usr 0.41 sys + 342.21 cusr 375.40 csys = 719.78 CPU) I ran Windows Update, which indicated one optional update was available (Windows Defender). I installed the update. I ran Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe version 2.918 and upgraded all Cygwin packages. See cygcheck-new.txt in the attached tarball for a listing of current Cygwin packages installed. I ran the cpan(1) shell and upgraded Perl modules: cpan[1]> upgrade /(.*)/ See cpan-upgrade.txt and current-perl-modules.txt in the attached tarball for a listing of Perl modules that were out-of-date and a listing of the current Perl modules installed. 'make test' now produces: 211 wallclock secs ( 2.39 usr 2.71 sys + 525.68 cusr 998.78 csys = 1529.57 CPU) David