A Simple Real World Benchmark for Cygwin

[Jeremy Hetzler]

At 11:06 AM 9/2/2002 -0500, Michael Hoffman wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Rick Richardson wrote:
>
> > Certainly, some performance degradation under CygWin could be expected
> > and tolerated.  But not a factor of 30X or more.  IMHO, of course.
>
>No! We should not tolerate any performance degradation under Cygwin
>WHATSOEVER.  Cygwin should run faster than native Linux. Cygwin should run
>faster than native Linux on a faster computer. Cygwin running on an aging
>Windows 95 486 with automatic virus checking running should run faster
>than a brand-new dual-processor Xeon system running on Linux. If the
>developers stopped kicking dogs long enough to actually do some work, this
>would already be a reality.

But the original poster wasn't just saying "Cygwin is slower than Linux" or 
"Cygwin is too slow". He also said:

>It is not entirely clear to me that my performance is representative
>of other CygWin installations.  Without a benchmark, it is impossible
>for me to determine if the results I am seeing are normal for CygWin,
>or the result of some unknown as yet system or installation problem.

Which is a valid point. What is "normal" for Cygwin on given hardware, and 
what is "slower than normal"? Now that we have a benchmark, we can start to 
answer those questions. That's a useful thing.


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