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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:38:48 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:30:03PM +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
>
>On 2012-10-16 14:22, bob wrote:
>> In a previous posting a few weeks back I presented some test code which
>> illustrated the performance deficit in the current Cygwin fifo implementation (2
>> orders of magnitude slower than Linux on same hardware).      It was this
>> performance issue that led me on a search for an alternative synchronization
>>
>
>Rather than jumping through hoops to get Cygwin to work, why don't you 
>just use one the built-in native facilities on windows?
>Windows natively supports message queues, asynchronous IO and probably a 
>whole host of other stuff that I don't know about.
>
>You can even access the native Windows functionality while running the 
>rest of your app under cygwin.

Mixing Windows and Cygwin APIs is rarely a good idea.  Some programs, like
mintty, need to do it for obvious reasons but mixing Windows handles and
Cygwin fds is going to cause headaches.

cgf

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