Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-31 Thread Aharon Robbins
Hi. Just a note to say "THANK YOU" to everyone who took the time to reply to me. I hope that a blanket thanks will do. :-) I've come to the conclusion that it is indeed BLODA. The box in question is my Corporate IT Laptop With All The Mandated Software and I can't disable anti-virus or any of the

Re: stuff running slowly

2012-08-27 Thread Aharon Robbins
Michael, Thanks for your note. I understand that process creation on Windows is slower than on Linux. But what I'm seeing is off by a few orders of magnitude. Cygwin on Windows 7 on a Sandy Bridge Core i5 with 4 Gig of memory is PAINFULLY slower than even my 7 year old Power PC Macbook G4 running