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From: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>
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Subject: RE: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:56:24 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe
> Sent: 25 June 2004 18:50

> * Rajiv Chopra (2004-06-25 17:10 +0200)
> > I'm a bit of a novice to cygwin, but after installing it on 
> my PC, I was very 
> > pleased with the ability to compile my C++ code with g++ 
> and get faster runtimes 
> > than on our SUN servers at work.
> 
> Are you sure of that? For instance Cygwin executables are said to run
> at half the speed of their native windows clones because of the Cygwin
> compatibility layer.

  Yes, but a years-old SUN running a SPARC cpu at maybe only a couple of
hundred MHz is still not really a match for a recent PC with a P4 clocked at
up to 3 gigs!
  

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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