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[OT] Re: Rebaseall fails with error 6 ...
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 01:45 PM 6/26/2004, you wrote:
> >[snip]
> >(But I don't regret reinstalling -- for some reason it's much faster
> >now, even though I'm using the same versions of all the DLLs)
>
> That's a little known secret of Cygwin. It gets faster every time
> you reinstall. It's a reward to those bold enough to endure the
> disruption of the reinstall. Theoretically, if you reinstalled
> constantly for one month straight (taking time out for meals of
> course), you'd gain the performance of a bank of Crays running
> Cygwin. No one is really sure what that performance would be
> though because no one has had enough patience so far to test that
> limit.[*]
So *THAT'S* why people are bugging this list about automating setup!!!!!
> --
> Larry Hall
> * ;-) Al this is an *attempt* at humor. Please don't take any of it
> seriously.
'kay. But who's "Al"? ;-)
Igor
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