RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-04-05 Thread Chris January
> > If you have such great insight into this type of thing, it won't take > > you any time at all to duplicate. You've been complaining about this > > and other cygwin performance issues for months. Why don't *you* do > > something? I figured fork/exec/signals out from scratch. Certainly the >

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-31 Thread Parker, Ron
> Noone has explained, however, *why* the copy-on-write > implementation was > slower. Perhaps we have just been using the wrong tests. Does > copy-on-write > actually perform slower in "real world" tests? I don't know, > because I only While I never posted anything about it to the list. I tri

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-31 Thread Ralf Habacker
> If you have such great insight into this type of thing, it won't take > you any time at all to duplicate. You've been complaining about this > and other cygwin performance issues for months. Why don't *you* do > something? I figured fork/exec/signals out from scratch. Certainly the > brighte

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:33:23PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: >>I don't have the code anymore > >It's a pity, because everbody else has to start from scratch and >couldn't take a deeper look and perhaps find the problem. And the reason you wanted thousands of people to know this is...? If you ha

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-29 Thread Ralf Habacker
> I don't have the code anymore It's a pity, because everbody else has to start from scratch and couldn't take a deeper look and perhaps find the problem. Cheers Ralf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Document

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:13:36AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Win32, the original state of the memory is treated as genuin state for >>each process. Therefore child processes don't inherit the changes from >>their parent

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:04:37PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Win32, the original state of the memory is treated as genuin state for >each process. Therefore child processes don't inherit the changes from >their parent processes but instead they begin with a fresh unchanged memory >as it w

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:18:37AM -, Chris January wrote: > > >>You misremember. I did hobble together a copy-on-write implementation > > >>and found that it was actually slower. The generic win32 > > >>implementation of copy-on-write isn't powerful enough to completely > > >>implement fork

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-29 Thread Chris January
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:04:01AM -, Chris January wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: > >>>I can't prove a fact, that forking is the most anonying problem and > >>>there were some initial work from some people (I remember Chris Faylor, > >>>Chris Janua

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-28 Thread Jeff . Hodges
> Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it,; charset=us-ascii > what would be gained? I wasn't sure what would be gained or the various ramifications. wanted to get hints about them, which this thread has done. JeffH -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:04:01AM -, Chris January wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: >>>I can't prove a fact, that forking is the most anonying problem and >>>there were some initial work from some people (I remember Chris Faylor, >>>Chris January and oth

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-28 Thread Chris January
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: > >I can't prove a fact, that forking is the most anonying problem > and there were > >some initial work from some people (I remember Chris Faylor, > Chris January and > >other) to identify the problems and to implement a new > copy-

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: >I can't prove a fact, that forking is the most anonying problem and there were >some initial work from some people (I remember Chris Faylor, Chris January and >other) to identify the problems and to implement a new copy-on-write seman

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-28 Thread Ralf Habacker
>> Having Mozilla itself running under Cygwin might not be useful >> to a lot of people but the fixes that Cygwin might have to go >> through to make this happen could pave the way for other X apps >> that come later. > >like we have encountered while porting KDE to cygin/xfree. > I remember a very

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, > Having Mozilla itself running under Cygwin might not be useful > to a lot of people but the fixes that Cygwin might have to go > through to make this happen could pave the way for other X apps > that come later. like we have encountered while porting KDE to cygin/xfree. Cheers Ralf --

RE: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi > First off, I have said it before and I'll say it again, Evolution from > Ximian needs to be ported to Cygwin.. do you have heard from KMail or KOrganizer on cygwin/xfree. Additional for the people who does not know that there is already an alternative web browser: Konqueror from the kde-cyg

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Off the top of anyone's head, is there any major reason why it should not > build? > Theres a few assembly bits that (from my experience attempting to port it to alpha OSF/1 - with gcc 3.3) - I would be a bit worried about possibly - although possibly a non issue since this is x86. When I last t

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Michael F. March
> > OK. Whatever those are. > > I'm guessing the MS in MSFT is Microsoft. I don't know what the FT part is. Stock symbol.. sorry. > Building from Cygwin while targeting native Windows APIs would > presumably be feasible using MinGW and / or "-mno-cygwin", but the > result would presumably functi

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread David Huang
Christopher Faylor wrote: 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" Moz

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
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 th

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Michael, At 21:32 2003-03-26, Michael F. March wrote: Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but... Fi

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Michael F. March
Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but... First off, I have said it before and I'll say it agai

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Gareth Pearce
Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? well you could ssh into your windows machine and run mozilla remotely from your xterminal ... umm - okay so thats not much of a gain... but... Gareth _

Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jeff, Just outta' curiosity, beyond the satisfaction of accomplishing it, what would be gained? Randall Schulz At 17:24 2003-03-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just outta curiosity, has anyone built Mozilla 1.3 on cygwin? thanks, JeffH -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

2003-03-26 Thread Jeff . Hodges
just outta curiosity, has anyone built Mozilla 1.3 on cygwin? thanks, JeffH -- 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/