> but maybe merely bringing up AMD64 up to the speed of x86 would suffice.
I think that that would be already a great progress... I see no reason why amd64 windows' would be so much slower. Another test on a vista 64 showed speeds around 7-8. If anyone has any idea what to do to speed up up to the 32bit os' speed, I'd be glad to hear about it. Thanks, Paul -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/