Pentium M and P4 question / and a failed test

[Michael Abshoff]

Sisyphus wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh Scholar" <joshscholar at nightstudies.net>
> .
> .
>> PS. it just finished the build at about 1 1/2 hours.
>
> I don't have any explanations, but I have also found GMP (and MPFR) very
> slow to build on Windows - in both Cygwin and the MSYS shell.
>
> A few weeks back I was simulataneously building the latest releases of GMP
> and MPFR on a Windows (P4) box and on a Linux (P3) box.
>
> By the time I had built, tested and installed MPFR and GMP on the Linux
> box,
> I was still running 'make' for GMP on the Windows box (hadn't even got to
> MPFR).

The shells used by Cygwin as well as MinGW just are terribly slow compared
to the ones under Linux/MacOSX. I have some python code that uses execlp()
+ startup of child processes (via pexpect) that takes 2-5 times as long
compared to doing it under Linux on the same hardware. I am sure that the
Cygwin and MinGW developers are aware of the problem, but my guess is that
it isn't obvious to fix and probably due to the need to emulate POSIX
functionality on top of the Windows kernel in userspace.

>
> If there are no explanations forthcoming here, I'm sure that someone on
> the
> Cygwin mailing list would be able to help out.
>
>> I'll have rename the directory structure to get rid of spaces.
>
> I think that would be a good idea.
>

Yep, spaces and anything non 7 bit ASCII in file names and/or directories
is generally a bad idea :)

> Cheers,
> Rob
>

Cheers,

Michael

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