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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:51:47AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> No, they just aren't as mean as we are.  We like to make things
> purposely slow because then people suffer.

I asked what I thought was a sensible question for someone who doesn't 
know the internal workings of cygwin/mingw. It wasn't meant as a flame 
bait. I was just interested in what trade-offs mingw might be making for 
its speed.

-Edward

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