On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:11:37PM -0500, Bill Hoffman wrote: >Earnie Boyd wrote: >>Quoting Bill Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>>So, if I run gmake (the patched cygwin version) and nmake >>>(Microsoft's make) on roughly >>>the same tree. (CMake can generate files for either.) nmake is >>>able to check the depend information >>>about twice as fast as gmake can. I suspect that the problem is in >>>the use of stat. Although windows/ >>>cygwin provide stat, there are significantly faster versions of stat >>>available via direct windows system calls. >>>We had a similar problem in CMake, and use the following code in >>>windows to compare times stamps of >> >>Cygwin's performance of stat shouldn't be a concern for this list. >>Take it back to the cygwin users list please. Alternatives to stat >>using the windows API though may be a different issue for the native >>version. You won't be able to use those alternatives for Cygwin or MSYS. >OK, for the moment lets forget about cygwin make. The native build of >make should have the same issue, >as it is calling stat which is provided in the winapi, but is slow. >Can someone give me a pointer to where >I could put different calls into make just so I can try it and see if it >helps. Thanks.
Why should the msvcrt _stat be slow? I wouldn't assume that to be the case. cgf _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
