On Jun 19 14:14, Ray Donnelly wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Btw., this is one reason why I don't understand the desire to use native > > tools. If you can get a working POSIXy build environment for free, why > > do you want to use native tools which only generate problems you could > > easily do without weird tweaks to the Cygwin DLL?!? > > > Usually it's because Cygwin is usually a lot slower than native for IO > heavy operations. Projects (such as the Android NDK) that supply > Cygwin-based compilers usually try to migrate to native ASAP, viewing the > Cygwin-based tools as a stop-gap measure.
Yeah. There's nothing we can do about that if we want to maintain POSIX compatibility as much as possible. SFU suffered from the same problem and they had at least the advantage of being able to use a native fork. Corinna ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
