[OT] Re: Rebaseall fails with error 6 ...

[Igor Pechtchanski]

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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