Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

[Robb, Sam]

> OTOH, Corinna is hard at work adding low-level Nt* calls to cygwin so,
> if it wasn't for the requirement that everything has to work 
> on Windows
> 9x, the DLL would be smaller and faster.  Instead, every system call
> currently needs to have a "do this if it's NT and that if 
> it's 9x" test
> so "we" have been slow in moving to bypass the win32 api layer on
> Windows NT.
> 
> OTOH, we will rebuild it.  We do have the technology.

Is there any reason why the cygwin DLL couldn't be built
twice: once for Win9x, and once for WinNT-based systems?

Aside from potential installation issues ("install this
version of the DLL under 9x, that version under NT), it
seems like this would be a reasonable optimization.

-Samrobb


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