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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin


Greetings, Warren Young!

> On 2/13/2014 09:07, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, Steven Penny!
>>
>>> - Do you have any benchmarks available? Or instructions on how we could test the
>>>    speed of the new system?
>>
>> In the end of the day, this should affect program startup times. But in home
>> environment, the difference will be negligible.

> Whose home are we talking about here? :)

<3

> In my home, we type commands like ./configure && make && make install

> That sort of thing may launch and kill hundreds of programs in a short 
> period of time.

> If we save only 1/20 second (say 0.1 sec down to 0.05) per process 
> launch, we can save tens of seconds on such a command sequence.

> I look forward to testing this.

I'm, already. It seems, I'm ought to retract my "negligible" statement.
Even simple diff'ing is way faster now.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 14.02.2014, <10:39>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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