On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:59:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >> 2. Having a complex GUI app like Mozilla ported to Cygwin could >> prove to be a stick in which to measure and compare the over >> all efficiency and performance of Cygwin. If the "native" >> Mozilla and the Cygwin version performed reasonably the same, >> then we would know that Cygwin is on track. If the Cygwin >> version lagged, it would set concrete goals for the >> Cygwin/XFree team. > >That's not going to happen any time soon. XFree86/Cygwin has no >graphics acceleration. Apart from that, little if anything runs as fast >through Cygwin as it does on the Win32 API even if GUI operation is >ignored or irrelevant. > >I don't mean this as a criticism, but just a fact. I imagine the >biggest win would be by getting some graphics acceleration in XFree86.
Yeah, this was my first thought when I saw this thread. $app = mozilla; print "Why is $app so *slow* on cygwin!"; cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/