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Subject: Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> It looks like you're comparing compiling under Cygwin on the
> host machine to compiling under Linux on a VMWare machine running
> on the host and finding the second way faster.

Shocking!

> 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.  I suspect that compiling the same quantity
of code on Windows would be plenty fast with a native Windows build
system that made efficient use of threads and CreateProcess() rather
than going through a simulation of fork().

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