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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. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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