Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:32:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "Gerrit P. Haase" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?) In-Reply-To: <429F7678.1050302@familiehaase.de> Message-ID: References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D03E04FD3@exchange.timesys.com> <429F7678.1050302@familiehaase.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Robb, Sam wrote: > > > Is there any reason why the cygwin DLL couldn't be built > > > twice: once for Win9x, and once for WinNT-based systems? > > > > > > Aside from potential installation issues ("install this > > > version of the DLL under 9x, that version under NT), it > > > seems like this would be a reasonable optimization. > > > As long as we're mulling over ideas... > > Alternatively, we could drop Win98 support. Dropping it altogether would be unfortunate. Providing Win98 support DLLs in a separate package is a possibility. There's still the point that CGF raised, about there being many more people with the knowledge of Win32 API than those with the knowledge of Nt* API. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/