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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:23:31 +0800
From: David Huang <hzhr AT linuxforum DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:59:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
>>>   2. Having a complex GUI app like Mozilla ported to Cygwin could
>>>       prove to be a stick in which to measure and compare the over
>>>       all efficiency and performance of Cygwin. If the "native"
>>>       Mozilla and the Cygwin version performed reasonably the same,
>>>       then we would know that Cygwin is on track. If the Cygwin
>>>       version lagged, it would set concrete goals for the
>>>       Cygwin/XFree team.
>>
>>That's not going to happen any time soon. XFree86/Cygwin has no 
>>graphics acceleration. Apart from that, little if anything runs as fast 
>>through Cygwin as it does on the Win32 API even if GUI operation is 
>>ignored or irrelevant.
>>
>>I don't mean this as a criticism, but just a fact. I imagine the 
>>biggest win would be by getting some graphics acceleration in XFree86.
> 
> 
> Yeah, this was my first thought when I saw this thread.
Not exactly. If so, we can try another X server.

However, getting mozilla run on cygwin is a challenge.:-)

> 
> $app = mozilla;
> print "Why is $app so *slow* on cygwin!"; >
I believe that.
> cgf
> 
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