Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:25:28 -0500 Message-Id: <200102132025.PAA09579@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj@envy.delorie.com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: jik-cygwin@curl.com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <20010213195439.17755.qmail@lizard.curl.com> (jik-cygwin@curl.com) Subject: Re: Optimizing away "ReadFile" calls when Make calls stat() References: <20010213183634.1435.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <3A89867C.395FC4E3@yahoo.com> <20010213191450.15506.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <3A898FA0.6895B5CA@yahoo.com> <20010213195439.17755.qmail@lizard.curl.com> > if they speed up Cygwin significantly, why aren't the people who > precompile Cygwin for download using those switches by default? Because using those switches when you shouldn't results in incorrect behavior. The defaults are *always* right, at the expense of speed. > Win32 is slower, but not THAT much slower. Actually, it is. I did some benchmarks using the native Win32 API directly, and Linux is way faster. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple