On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 08:29:21AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:15 PM, bob wrote: >>While this hack works the performance under Cygwin is orders of >>magnitude slower than the equivalent Linux performance. >> >>Any suggestions on how we can achieve a higher performance blocking >>read on a Cygwin RDWR fifo? >> > >You expect too much, it is Windows under the hood and no one but >Microsoft can change that performance issue. Windows alone (meaning >without Cygwin) is orders of magnitude slower than Linux. Cygwin adds >another layer of slowness just because of the emulation required. You >might get a tweak or two of milliseconds by modifying some underlying >code but you're not going to get too much more.
But, again, if we are talking about differences in behavior which are not simply "Linux is faster" then provide a simple test case which works one way on Linux and another on Cygwin and I'll look into fixing the problem. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
