Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:51:47AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various
"Why is Cygwin so slow????" threads that have been here in the last
month. Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms to
work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause corresponding slowness
for everything.
>>
That's an interesting view. So are you saying that this is why MINGW
is faster?
No, they just aren't as mean as we are. We like to make things
purposely slow because then people suffer.
I asked what I thought was a sensible question for someone who doesn't
know the internal workings of cygwin/mingw. It wasn't meant as a flame
bait. I was just interested in what trade-offs mingw might be making for
its speed.
-Edward
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