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Thu Feb 27 22:41:00 GMT 2003

Jeff> > Though I've never attempted a build on MSYS, I discovered some time ago
Jeff> > that Cygwin builds are painfully slow. I traced it to the stat() call.
Jeff> > Whatever cygwin.dll was/is doing to emulate stat() involves kernel and
Jeff> > subsystem activity, noticable by watching the System and LSASS.EXE tasks
Jeff> > during a build.
Jeff>
Andrew> It needs to look up the fd, hash the full pathname to get an inode,
Andrew> and make system calls to get the device and unit. It's quite
Andrew> involved. 
Jeff,
When was the last time you tried building on Cygwin? Could it have been
before this patch?:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-02/msg00414.html
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