Hello, Yes, I also found the MinGW environment to be exceedingly slow. A simple C++ program that took ~1s to run on a Mac took 10min to run on MinGW on a PC in the Computing Suite. The working directory was my home-space on the H: drive. I also found that it took ~5s to list the contents of the directory (just a couple of files). It didn't seem practicably usable. The Visual Studio 2012 compiler seemed to take longer to build executables (again, trivially small programs) than I remember from when I used the version there 2 years ago. But at ~10s or so, it is usable. Best wishes, Robert On 19 Sep 2013, at 15:35, David Colling wrote:

Hi,

I was looking at the computers on level 3 and they seem to run very slowly - several seconds for a "Hallo World" C++ programme. It might have been because the image was on my H: drive.

Also I noticed that the association of .py files with python in notepad++ was broken on the machine on which I was running.

Have others tried the level 3 machines since their re-installation this summer? If so have you noticed any oddities?

Best, david

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