From: bje@air.net.au (Ben Elliston) Subject: Performance 3 May 1997 09:41:26 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Someone on another mailing list suggested the applications ported to Win32 using Cygwin are not up to scratch. I don't understand why this might be: the compiler produces native x86 (and presumably very good!) code for the user space code and for UNIX system calls, they would be handled by the DLL with a secondary call into the Windows kernel. Does anyone have any performance comparisons between "Cygwin" apps and native Win32 applications? Is there any real performance penalty for software with a high proportion of system calls? Thanks, Ben --- Ben Elliston "For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." -- Steven Wright - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".