Re: complains about the cygwin/gcc binaries

2011-01-27 Thread wxie
In the ROOT downloading website: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/production-versio n-528 It says: Note that the performance of cygwin/gcc binaries is currently very poor; we only pro vide this build as an unsupported toy. We strongly recommend to use the version above compiled with VC++.

Re: complains about the cygwin/gcc binaries

2011-01-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 1/27/2011 2:36 PM, wxie wrote: In the ROOT downloading website: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/production-version-528 It says: Note that the performance of cygwin/gcc binaries is currently very poor; we only pro vide this build as an unsupported toy. We strongly recommend to use the

Re: complains about the cygwin/gcc binaries

2011-01-27 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:36 PM, wrote: In the ROOT downloading website: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/production-versio n-528 It says: Note that the performance of cygwin/gcc binaries is currently very poor; we only pro vide this build as an unsupported toy. We strongly recommend to

Re: complains about the cygwin/gcc binaries

2011-01-27 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Marco Atzeri wrote: In the gcc-3 era the C++ timing performance were really poor, gcc-4 solved a lot such problem. I guess the situation is improved in the meantime but of course cygwin is slower than an equivalent native build as he try to replicate the UNIX/Posix enviroment in an unfriendly

Re: complains about the cygwin/gcc binaries

2011-01-27 Thread marco atzeri
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Marco Atzeri wrote: In the gcc-3 era the C++ timing performance were really poor, gcc-4 solved a lot such problem. I guess the situation is improved in the meantime but of course cygwin is slower than an equivalent native build as he