Re: [Monotone-devel] performance of "mtn diff"

[Johan Bolmsjö]

On Friday 11 August 2006 22:35, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:29:33PM +0200, Johan Bolmsjo wrote:
> > mingw 0.26
> > ==========
>
> [...]
>
> > real    0m39.515s
> > user    0m0.046s
> > sys     0m0.046s
> >
> >
> > cygwin 0.28
> > ===========
>
> [...]
>
> > real    7m35.375s
> > user    7m34.529s
> > sys     0m0.343s
>
> Wow, that is ridiculously slow.
>
> I am suspicious, though, that the biggest difference between those two
> versions is probably not anything in the monotone code, but simply
> that one is native and one is using cygwin's emulation stuff.  Before
> we go hunting through the code to figure out what changed, would
> it be possible to try mingw 0.28 as well, to figure out whether the
> problem actually _is_ in our code?
>
> (I'd hope that either way we can do something, but I don't know that
> much about cygwin.)
>
> -- Nathaniel

I will install and try the mingw version on monday (and report back). Didn't 
think of that right away. Could be cygwin as you say...

/Johan