FW: Assymetric network performance on cygwin

[Ralf Habacker]

For archiving purpose 

> egor duda wrote:
> > If you're concerned about cygwin performance, i can pinpoint 4 major
> > possible sources of cygwin slowness compared to, say, linux. They are
> > fork(), stat(), select() and symlink resolution. Some work is done
> > from time to time to decrease performance penalty from them, but as
> > preserving correctness is the goal of higher priority, i wouldn't
> > expect much progress in this area. Ah, ttys are not blazingly fast
> > either.
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