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in reply to Re: File::Temp painfully slow under Cygwin
in thread File::Temp painfully slow under Cygwin

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
In my case the file does not exist, and this may explain the problem.