I ran the following loop under bash on three different machines:
i=1000000 while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do j=$(((i/3+i*3)**3)) i=$((i-1)) done Here is how long it took: CPU OS Time (secs) --------------- ------------ ---------- P4/3.2GHz Linux RHEL4 41 Core Duo/2.2GHz Mac OSX 10.4 43 Core Duo/2.4GHz WinXP+Cygwin 107 Cygwin was a slow by a factor of 3x. Is that normal? Vinod -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
