---------------------------------------- > From: jay.kr...@cornell.edu > To: cygwin@cygwin.com; marchy...@hotmail.com; andy.ko...@gmail.com > Subject: RE: console scroll speed on Win XP > Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:34:08 +0000 > > >> Andy >> Yep, the Windows console is slow alright, and I don't know of any way > > > Huh? > The windows console is fast, among the fastest > I have ever used, BUT you must have the video > driver for your specific card.
I'm on a laptop and don't have a card, a Compaq Evo N610c with XP pro. I tried to update drivers from HP with no obvious effect. In any case mintty was a lot faster with no obvious drawbacks yet. I can appreciate there may be some issues but using the whole CPU while it scrolled by a rate just fast enough for reading seemed a bit odd. mintty is unreadably fast and probably some of cpu time goes to disk IO in my benchmark taskamanager test with cat :) IIRC, "dir" on a 4 Megahertz Z-80 computer was at least as fast. > If you just have the generic VGA driver, it is slow, > and other things are noticably too. > > > I haven't seen a faster graphical console, but text consoles are also fast. > > > Also being in bash seems slower. > I usually set PATH=c:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% but don't use bash interactively. > You might try that. > Being in cmd preserves the nice F8 command line completion against history > feature > that I haven't found elsewhere. > > > > - Jay > > -- > 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/ > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Contacts: Organize your contact list. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/marcusatmicrosoft.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!503D1D86EBB2B53C!2285.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_UGC_Contacts_032009 -- 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/
