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Re: Interim source package compilation instructions
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: cygx <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:07:23 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Interim source package compilation instructions
- References: <40540E0D.8000406@codeweavers.com> <40548064.20309@codeweavers.com><4059FDB5.2060300@codeweavers.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 4) If you want to perform a clean rebuild, just run the following
> command first before repeating step #3. Beware that removing thousands
> of files on my machine takes between 5 and 25 minutes (it varies for
> some reason) and could take up to an hour if the Windows machine is
cygwin's file-delete is very slow. Generally the Windows delete is much
faster (even counting emptying the trash).
> particularly slow. Of course, Linux with ResierFS completes this
> operation immediately.
sort of. I've observed that there's a big performance hit when I untar
large files or do other operations that create new files. Haven't noticed
that it's an faq though.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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