Re: Serious performance problems (new snapshot has some performance improvement)

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>]

Ralf Habacker wrote:


> > > > Interesting, why is it faster when running a binary that doesn't
> > > > depend on cygwin1.dll after swapping the DLL?  Some Win caching mechanism?
> > >
> > >
> > > I recognized this caching behavior with KDE/cygwin too. Under  
> > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kde-cygwin/tools/fillmem/ there is a 
> > > tool, which could be used to minimize this influcence by clearing this 
>
> cache. 
>
> > > See the README for more informations. 
> >
> > GlobalMemoryStatusEx is only available on Win2k and WinXP.
>
> Does anyone know a similar function under win9x  ? 

Danny Smith wrote a replacement:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-02/msg02045.html


Gerrit
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