On Jun 19 15:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.

OTOH, Cygwin got faster over the last year or so, and the 64 bit version
will be another bit faster.  There's always room for development.


Corinna

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