in reply to File::Temp painfully slow under Cygwin

It may not help very much, but I just tried your command under Cygwin, Win 7 and 8 cores (in other words, a configuration very similar to what you have). First call and second one: 

Laurent@Laurent-HP ~
$ time /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Temp'

real    0m0.763s
user    0m0.108s
sys     0m0.139s

Laurent@Laurent-HP ~
$ time /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Temp'

real    0m0.164s
user    0m0.093s
sys     0m0.062s

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Re^2: File::Temp painfully slow under Cygwin
by dds (Novice) on Jul 09, 2013 at 20:32 UTC
    Thank you. The problem could then be an installation issue. What do you get by running the following? 
    find /usr/lib/perl5/ -name Cwd.dll

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    In my case the file does not exist, and this may explain the problem.
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      My contribution from a Toshiba NB305 Netbook 1.66GHz with 2GB RAM, running WinXP: 
      $ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 minime 1.7.20(0.266/5/3) 2013-06-07 11:11 i686 Cygwin
$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for cygwin-th
+read-multi-64int
(with 7 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2011, Larry Wall

<output truncated>

$ time /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Temp'

real    0m0.469s
user    0m0.358s
sys     0m0.125s
$ time /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Temp'

real    0m0.438s
user    0m0.249s
sys     0m0.202s

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      ...and the search for Cwd.dll returned nothing.

      I initially ran this earlier and the "real" time was just over two seconds, but that was the slowest it recorded.

      Hope this helps!
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      Does not seem to exist either.

      Laurent@Laurent-HP ~
$ find /usr/lib/perl5/ -name Cwd.dll

Laurent@Laurent-HP ~

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        Does not seem to exist either.

        Check this way 

        $ perl -MCwd -le " print for grep /Cwd/, %:: "
Cwd::
*main::Cwd::
_<C:/citrusperl/lib/auto/Cwd/Cwd.dll
*main::_<C:/citrusperl/lib/auto/Cwd/Cwd.dll
_<Cwd.c
*main::_<Cwd.c

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