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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 15:45:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: Status of Cygwin on Windows/ARM64?
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From: Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 10:50 AM Arthur Norman <acn1 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
>
> I have been VERY happily pleased about how well Cygwin runs using
> Prism on Windows/ARM64. I can build and test my x86_64 code there using it
> despite the underlying CPU being an ARM. My genuine Windows/x86_64 machine
> is not that new these days. Using a stack Macbook-m1/UTM/Windows11-ARM64
> runs the proggrams in build using cygwin on that Windows as x86_64 code via
> Prism and is quite close in speed to that which I observe on my "real"
> Windows computer.

Clarification: I was asking for NATIVE ARM64 Cygwin binaries. The
x86_64 to ARM64 emulation feels like having a racecar driving in
molasses, just annoying users, and is thus no option.

Mark
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IT Infrastructure Consultant
Windows, Linux

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