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Re: latest cygcheck -c is expensive
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:07:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: latest cygcheck -c is expensive
- References: <20030905124047.GD1852@tishler.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:40:47AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Would you be willing to make the status check portion of cygcheck -c
>optional (i.e., another option)? The latest version is very expensive:
>
> $ # 1.5.3 on P4 2.4 GHz
> $ time cygcheck -c >/dev/null
>
> real 1m49.646s
> user 0m0.010s
> sys 0m0.020s
>
> $ # 1.3.22 on P3 500 MHz
> $ time cygcheck -c >/dev/null
>
> real 0m0.042s
> user 0m0.010s
> sys 0m0.020s
Why does it matter if cygcheck -c is expensive? It is supposed to be doing
a sanity check on the installation.
OTOH, it could probably be speeded up considerably if it used a mingw zlib
library...
cgf
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