Latest 64 bit test stuff on sourceware

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 18 10:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 17 21:32, Andy Koppe wrote:
> > I've also tried ye olde date fork benchmark (`while true; do date;
> > done | uniq -c`), on a Windows 8-64 laptop: I got 26 dates per second
> > with 32-bit Cygwin, but 50 with 64-bit Cygwin, so that's looking quite
> > promising.
> 
> Sounds good.  I just hope it's not only a side-effect of some bug still
> lurking in Cygwin :}

Did you test dash vs. bash by any chance?  If so, bash is rather slow
compared to dash.  On my 2008R2 testmachine I tested the above date loop
in dash, and I get 45 with Cygwin 1.7.17 (35 with bash), and 58+ with
the 64 bit DLL, so that's about 28% faster.


Corinna

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