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Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)
Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 12:42 schrieb Gerrit P. Haase:
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>
>
> >>>>Interesting, why is it faster when running a binary that doesn't
> >>>>depend on cygwin1.dll after swapping the DLL? Some Win caching
mechanism?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I recognized this caching behavior with KDE/cygwin too. Under
> >>>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kde-cygwin/tools/fillmem/ there is
a
> >>>tool, which could be used to minimize this influcence by clearing this
> >
> > cache.
> >
> >>>See the README for more informations.
> >>
> >>GlobalMemoryStatusEx is only available on Win2k and WinXP.
> >>
> >
> > Does anyone know a similar function under win9x ?
>
> Danny Smith wrote a replacement:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-02/msg02045.html
>
Thanks for this pointer. I've incorporated this function into fillmem.
Ralf
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