On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:47:43PM -0700, Karl M wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:34:16 +0200 >> From: corinna-cygwin >> Subject: NT4? >> >> Is anybody here still using Cygwin on Windows NT4 on a daily basis? I'm >> asking because we're planning to drop NT4 support entirely and I would >> like to know if there are lots of people who would be very sad if that >> happens. >> >No...Haven't even used w2k in the last five years. > >At some point, would there be any (significant) performance advantage to >moving (some of the) platform differences to compile time? (Not for all of >the applications, just for the Cygwin DLL and perhaps cygserver?
You mean something like: gcc -DALLOW_NT4 something-random-program.c There would be no benefit whatsoever to allowing something like that since there would still have to be accommodations in cygwin to handle it the antique platform. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
