On 18 June 2010 20:12, Alan W. Irwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> That would be a most interesting comparison. In computer terms 150 ms is an > absolutely enormous time that allows something like 150 million (!) > operations to occur on modern PC's. So I would be surprised if Microsoft > Windows required that long to start up applications. Creating processes on Windows is *expensive*. Do a "./configure;make;make install" natively in Cygwin for any piece of open source software and you'll be amazed how slow ./configure is to run. This is because ./configure works by making a source code file, compiling it in gcc and then running the resultant binary; this is easy on a Unix, very laborious on Windows. So I don't know, but I would be unsurprised if it's Wine doing all the stuff it has to do to pretend to be Windows. Cygwin runs under Wine. How does ./configure for a given program running on Cygwin on Wine compare to ./configure for the same program running on Cygwin on Windows on the same hardware? - d.
