More on windows performance

Hi, I've compiled the latest php out of CVS and I'm having the same (wacky) performance trouble that I've had before. I have cygwin on my machine that I'm currently using 'time' to test php.exe with my ~100k files of xes. The Release_TS_inline numbers appear to be only slightly faster than the Release_TS numbers. The binary windows php-4.0.0 release is faster still. Using the command: time ./php.exe speed-100k-html.php > dump For my file with just 100,000 xes, I get this time: 0m7.750s real 0m0.031s user 0m0.031s sys For my file that <? print ?>s 100,000 chars, I get this time: 0m3.016s real 0m0.046s user 0m0.015s sys And for php3 I get: 0m0.250s real 0m0.031s user 0m0.031s sys Perhaps one of you can decipher these numbers... It seems to me that the user+sys time only adds up to over 0.06 seconds. Which I believe would be the time that something like this SHOULD actually take. However, the actual elapsed time is odd because: a) its so slow, b) the print statements are so much faster than raw characters. If it would help for me to mail anyone the files I am testing, I will... I would attatch them here, but they are 200k and it is so easy to recreate such things in vi ('100ixESCyy999pp'). When I compiled from cvs, the only change I made was adding ext/standard/scanf.[ch] to the project, because a couple files referenced php_sscanf_internal. If you can lend any suggestions for what I might do to get this time down, please, mail 'em off to me. -joel