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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:22:58AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
>NightStrike wrote:
>> Port cygwin to win64 via mingw-w64 :) :)
>
>I'm not convinced that this will help. As mentioned already, there was a 
>very specific change between cygwin releases that resulted in the slow 
>down. It would be more helpful if someone actually compared the source, 
>ran some profiles and figured out which change it was that actually 
>caused the slowdown. From that, we can then properly assess the 
>situation and decide on the best way to address it.

Please go right ahead and do that.  Welcome to the wonders of free software.

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