X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48FCCD89.6090905@bmts.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:27:21 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system References: <48FCBAC3.8090209@bmts.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Mark J. Reed wrote: >> Long story short, this is probably not so much a Cygwin issue >> as general Windows issue... > > No, I think that's going too far. It's a mismatch between the Windows > and UNIX process models, and the fact that compilation via make(1) is > optimized for the latter. Agreed. I was trying to say that no amount of tweaking and hand-wringing would force make to run as fast in a windows environment as in a Unix environment. Ralph -- 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/