X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:22:15 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Matthew Woehlke cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <020d01c748b4$62d8b170$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <45C69F2F.2060300@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > > > Will using shell wrappers noticably slow down calls to gcc? Or should > > > we just start explicitly calling i686-pc-cygwin-gcc instead? (FWIW > > > Gentoo does the equivalent of the latter.) > > > > I don't think speed itself will be a problem, unless the scripts are > > really naive and involve lots of forks. However, as I noted before, > > scripts cannot be invoked from non-Cygwin programs. > > ...but doesn't the script itself involve a fork? On a big project, with > an extra fork for every source file, that can still add up. Don't forget that invoking the gcc executable from make or the shell involves a fork anyway. If gcc is 'exec'ed from the script, there will only be the fork that invokes the shell, versus the fork that would have invoked the executable. I was referring to the scripts calling "grep", "sed", etc, to process the options instead of using the bash builtin commands which don't involve forks. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Freedom is just another word for "nothing left to lose"... -- Janis Joplin -- 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/