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Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system
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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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
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