<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Karl fixed the bugs in my patch and I am attaching a new patch. <DIV>His statistics under cygwin on Windows XP against all modules: </DIV><DIV>Before:<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS">old mkfastmod: 344.577u 129.499s 9:08.59 86.4%</FONT></DIV><DIV>After:<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS">new mkfastmod: 328.452u 29.749s 6:20.30 94.1%</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS">(The three values are: user, system, wall and cpu)</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS">So there was nearly a 30% gain.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>