Re: higher-level IO very slow with cygwin1.dll 5.10 (due to set_flags?)

["Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 03:42:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> >Digging deeper, I see there is a function getc_unlocked. Using it
> >instead of getc improves the speed by a factor 5. 
> >Now that I know about it, I will redefine getc to getc_unlocked when
> >porting single threaded applications.
> >
> >That issue may be a factor in the legendary slowness of Cygwin.
> 
> FWIW, I added some code to this particular locking function to avoid
> doing any locks if there is only one thread.  I'm generating a snapshot
> now.  It will be interesting to see if it improves things.  I didn't
> do any benchmarking.  I just verified that it worked the way I thought
> it should by looking at strace output.

Here it is, using a slightly modified version of Joseph's program
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00877.html

Your change makes getc work almost as fast a getc_unlocked.
This is on Win98. Yesterday's results were on WinME, where the
differences were larger. That hard drive died this morning :(

CYGWIN_98-4.10 Worldnet 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i586 unknown unknown Cygwin

W:~: time a.exe daqsystem.pdf 1  (read)
real    0m0.282s
W:~: time a.exe daqsystem.pdf 2  (getc_unlocked)
real    0m1.295s
W:~: time a.exe daqsystem.pdf 3  (getc)
real    0m3.188s

CYGWIN_98-4.10 Worldnet 1.5.11s(0.116/4/2) 20040627 15:47:35 i586 unknown unknown Cygwin

W:~: time a.exe daqsystem.pdf 1   (read)
real    0m0.275s
W:~: time a.exe daqsystem.pdf 2   (getc_unlocked)
real    0m1.294s
W:~: time a.exe daqsystem.pdf 3   (getc)
real    0m1.343s                 

Pierre

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