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Re: gprof reported run times off by factor 1.56 on some machines. Has timer tick rate changed ?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:41:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: gprof reported run times off by factor 1.56 on some machines. Has timer tick rate changed ?
- References: <002a01c658a3$c8e9b1f0$0a01a8c0@source> <4437FD10.9080000@cygwin.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 02:12:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>Guy Larri wrote:
>>gprof reports run times 1.56 times too fast on some machines under cygwin.
>>On another cygwin installation it reports the correct run time.
>
>Yikes! Now Cygwin is too fast!! Please someone do *something* to slow it
>down! This is just not acceptable!!! ;-)
I am *so* sick of people complaining about how fast cygwin is. Cygwin is
an emulation layer! It emulates linux! Linux is faster than Windows so
of *course* Cygwin will be faster than Windows, too.
Cheesh.
cgf
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