Latest 64 bit test stuff on sourceware

[Andy Koppe]

On 19 February 2013 09:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 18 10:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 17 21:32, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> > I've also tried ye olde date fork benchmark (`while true; do date;
>> > done | uniq -c`), on a Windows 8-64 laptop: I got 26 dates per second
>> > with 32-bit Cygwin, but 50 with 64-bit Cygwin, so that's looking quite
>> > promising.
>>
>> Sounds good.  I just hope it's not only a side-effect of some bug still
>> lurking in Cygwin :}
>
> Did you test dash vs. bash by any chance?

You're right, I did.

> If so, bash is rather slow
> compared to dash.  On my 2008R2 testmachine I tested the above date loop
> in dash, and I get 45 with Cygwin 1.7.17 (35 with bash), and 58+ with
> the 64 bit DLL, so that's about 28% faster.

Retesting with the latest stuff I got 47 vs 34 in dash (+38%), and 39
vs 26 in bash (+50%).

Andy