Make the args egg stop truncating long options in args:usage

2021-09-09 Thread T . Kurt Bond
[Should I be asking this question on chicken-hackers instead of here?] Right now, when you use the args egg's args:usage function to display a usage message, it truncates long option displays. For instance, here's the output of args:usage for a program I'm working on now: == args:usage

Re: Windows vs Linux Performance, windows host 4-6x slower than linux guest vm

2021-09-09 Thread Mark Fisher
Thanks Mario, these are very useful points. I took a benchmark that would easily compile on both from https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/program/fasta-gcc-9.html Both windows and linux compiling with: > gcc -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer fasta.c -o fasta > time ./fasta

Re: Windows vs Linux Performance, windows host 4-6x slower than linux guest vm

2021-09-09 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 01:26:26PM +0100, Mark Fisher wrote: > I'm seeing quite a difference in performance between the two; windows host > is running about ~4-6x slower than a VM that's running on the same machine. hm, that's odd indeed. Perhaps it's something to do with the different C calling