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Mark J. Reed wrote:

>> Long story short, this is probably not so much a Cygwin issue
>> as general Windows issue...
> 
> No, I think that's going too far.  It's a mismatch between the Windows
> and UNIX process models, and the fact that compilation via make(1) is
> optimized for the latter. 

Agreed. I was trying to say that no amount of tweaking and hand-wringing
would force make to run as fast in a windows environment as in a Unix
environment.

Ralph

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