Re: Slow shell script execution on Cygwin

2005-04-15 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Robert_=D6gren?=
Brian Dessent wrote: My questions for you: 1. Do these numbers seem reasonable? Yes, unfortunately. Heavy fork()-exec() based scripts just take forever. Ok. 2. Is there anything (apart from cross-compiling on Linux :) ) that can be done to increase script execution speed? You can try mounting your

Re: Slow shell script execution on Cygwin

2005-04-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Ögren wrote: > My questions for you: > 1. Do these numbers seem reasonable? Yes, unfortunately. Heavy fork()-exec() based scripts just take forever. > 2. Is there anything (apart from cross-compiling on Linux :) ) that can > be done to increase script execution speed? You can try mounti

Slow shell script execution on Cygwin

2005-04-14 Thread Robert Ögren
Hi everybody, [cc:ing libtool as I started a thread about Libtool execution speed there] One thing that has annoyed me for a while is that large/complex shell scripts with a lot of forking, like configure scripts or Libtool, run quite slowly on Cygwin. I know that you have to do a lot of trickery