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Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)


On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Linda W wrote:

> In tracing the Win32 file operations, find seems to perform multiple
> file open operations for each file processed.  One way to speed up
> operations in this area might be to keep a "cache" of the last "N"
> file handles.  I suspect it's just the Windows path lookup mechanism
> being slow to reopen things.  But if the cygwin.dll could cache even
> the past 5 entries, it might speed things up significantly.  If it
> is opened each time to read different information, it might be much
> cheaper to collect all the information at one time and cache it in
> an internal "inode cache" that could expire in a second or so.
> If it would "slow" down other programs, it could have some smarts in
> the system calls to look for calling patterns from programs like find
> that need a couple or more openings to fully "process a file", that all
> happen within a few milliseconds of each other.

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>.  <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.
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