Re: performance issue with cgywin make

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Bill Hoffman <address@hidden>:

> So, if I run gmake (the patched cygwin version) and nmake 
> (Microsoft's make) on roughly
> the same tree.  (CMake can generate files for either.)   nmake is 
> able to check the depend information
> about twice as fast as gmake can.   I suspect that the problem is in 
> the use of stat.  Although windows/
> cygwin provide stat, there are significantly faster versions of stat 
> available via direct windows system calls.
> We had a similar problem in CMake, and use the following code in 
> windows to compare times stamps of

Cygwin's performance of stat shouldn't be a concern for this list.  
Take it back to the cygwin users list please.  Alternatives to stat 
using the windows API though may be a different issue for the native 
version.  You won't be able to use those alternatives for Cygwin or 
MSYS.

Earnie Boyd
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