[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23

Edward Lam edward@sidefx.com
Thu Jul 2 12:51:00 GMT 2009


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various
> "Why is Cygwin so slow????" threads that have been here in the last
> month.  Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms
> to work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause corresponding slowness
> for everything.

That's an interesting view. So are you saying that this is why MINGW is 
faster?

-Edward

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple



More information about the Cygwin mailing list