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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
