Brian Dessent wrote on 20 October 2008 18:30: > "Manning, Sid" wrote: > >> I was surprised to see that I could compile much faster under VMware >> than on Cygwin on the same host. > > Why is that surprising?
Well, I can see why it might be surprising to anyone who isn't aware in some detail exactly /how/ much work Cygwin has to do 'behind-the-scenes' to make Windows impersonate the functionality that's built-in to Linux. Sid: as you see, it's quite a lot. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/