On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 02:24, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > > > If I did it in a working scenario I'd install the Cygwin > > tools and run the same bash script that I'd use on Linux. > > I'm not sure how this would work as a benchmark though. > > There may be more efficient ways to spawn processes in > > windows than the cygwin emulation of fork. > > I was actually intending to investigate the context > switching aspects of XP vs Linux. Installing Cygwin > seems a little bit high overhead (in disc space, etc.) > to me. I may have still installed a MinGW on my XP > partition. That might be a way... If you calculate that space requirement in terms of cost at current disk prices it probably wouldn't sound that bad. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
