Hi,
In my UNIX (OSX 10.8.5). It is as follows:
[with global-6.3.2 source code]
$ python --version
Python 2.7.2
$ gtags --stat
period user[sec] system[sec] elapsed[sec] %CPU
---------------------------------- --------- ----------- ------------ ----
Time of creating GTAGS and GRTAGS. 0.054 0.010 0.066 96.4
Time of flushing B-tree cache 0.023 0.010 0.044 75.0
---------------------------------- --------- ----------- ------------ ----
The entire time 0.077 0.020 0.110 87.9
$ gtags --stat --gtagslabel=ctags
ctags: Warning: ignoring null tag in ./jquery/jquery.js
period user[sec] system[sec] elapsed[sec] %CPU
---------------------------------- --------- ----------- ------------ -----
Time of creating GTAGS and GRTAGS. 0.142 0.061 0.241 84.1
Time of flushing B-tree cache 0.008 0.009 0.013 130.1
---------------------------------- --------- ----------- ------------ -----
The entire time 0.149 0.070 0.254 86.3
$ gtags --stat --gtagslabel=pygments
ctags: Warning: ignoring null tag in ./jquery/jquery.js
period user[sec] system[sec] elapsed[sec] %CPU
---------------------------------- --------- ----------- ------------ -----
Time of creating GTAGS and GRTAGS. 7.568 0.091 7.952 96.3
Time of flushing B-tree cache 0.023 0.009 0.029 111.0
---------------------------------- --------- ----------- ------------ -----
The entire time 7.590 0.100 7.981 96.4
> Is this something I should be looking at, or are other OSes comparable?
Probably it is comparable.
Shigio