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Subject: RE: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:39:43 +0100
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Brian Dessent wrote on 20 October 2008 18:30:

> "Manning, Sid" wrote:
> 
>> I was surprised to see that I could compile much faster under VMware
>> than on Cygwin on the same host. 
> 
> Why is that surprising?  

  Well, I can see why it might be surprising to anyone who isn't aware in some
detail exactly /how/ much work Cygwin has to do 'behind-the-scenes' to make
Windows impersonate the functionality that's built-in to Linux.

  Sid: as you see, it's quite a lot.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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