Re: Tests in Cygwin

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: May 8, 2009, 09:28 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0905080228j6b114631p35395464c0c98540@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/5/8 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

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> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
>
>>>   +for prerequisite in $(echo "$1" | tr , ' ')
>>
>> So, you dislike the space separator, but you also dislike the IFS games
>> that save a few new processes? ;) (Think of Windows, where fork is expensive).
>
> You can play IFS=, game, then ;-)
>
> I have to admit that it feels so 80'ish, back when our UNIX machines were
> so slow that we tried to shave every fork+exec from our shell scripts by
> using built-ins when possible, though.

Well, on Windows (at least with Cygwin), it is 80's still. My workstation (a 2.4GHz P4, 70C hot, 2Gb Dell monster) is about 100x slower than my old Asus laptop (a 384Mb, 1200Ghz Pentium-M) in starting a trivial program ("int main() { return 0; }").

I'm trying to save where possible on cygwin, whatever cost.