Hi Adam, On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > [...] the (lack of) speed of running the Git test suite on Cygwin > is one of the reasons I run the tests on high-spec Azure VMs rather > than my own systems. Unfortunately the Cygwin compatibility layer plus > the overheads of NTFS mean things are unlikely to get significantly > quicker any time soon, and between WSL and Git for Windows, I expect > interest in improving Cygwin's performance is going to continue to > wane. Well, at least from the Git point of view, there is still _some_ hope. At the Git Contributor Summit, we talked (very, very briefly) about moving parts of Git's test infrastructure from shell code to C. This would definitely help not only save electricity (and we all _do_ have to get used to the idea that we cannot continue spending as much energy as we do right now) when running the CI/PR builds, but also accelerate running the test suite on Cygwin (or for that matter, I suspect HP NonStop to be helped tremendously, too). Ciao, Dscho
