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Re: Curious - why Cygwin Bash so much faster in rxvt than Windows CLI?
- To: "jorgens at coho dot net" <jorgens at coho dot net>, "Cygwin List (E-mail)" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Curious - why Cygwin Bash so much faster in rxvt than Windows CLI?
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:22:53 -0700
Steve,
From BASH in a Windows Character Subsystem window:
% time ls -lR /
<lots of elided output>
real 1m27.782s
user 0m7.296s
sys 0m23.608s
% tsize
rows 93; columns 120
From BASH in RXVT:
% time ls -lR /
<lots of elided output>
real 1m33.360s
user 0m6.765s
sys 0m31.561s
% tsize
rows 100; columns 120
% time ll -lR / |wc
20812 173469 1309196
real 0m29.375s
user 0m5.982s
sys 0m23.169s
In both cases the window was unobstructed. I have a Matrox G400 MAX.
It's evident visually that the scrolling algorithm is somehow different,
though I can't say how, really.
Nonetheless, there isn't much real difference in performance, at leat on my
system.
Randall Schulz
At 18:56 2001-07-13, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>The subject kind of says it all. The Windows command processor runs plenty
>fast in the Windows CLI, but Cygwin Bash output crawls. On the other hand,
>Cygwin Bash runs screaming fast in rxvt. I'm impressed with the rxvt speed
>- the W libraries must be pretty efficient.
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