Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <200303121520.h2CFKQYX011976@pimout3-ext.prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@computer.org To: Joshua Daniel Franklin , Michael Talbot-Wilson Subject: Re: New user / CD installation problems Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:20:25 -0800 Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030312145250.89560.qmail@web20009.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030312145250.89560.qmail@web20009.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Wednesday 12 March 2003 06:52, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > --- Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > > > You solved just about all my problems. The speed problem, that > > everything takes 10 or more times as long as on Linux, I assume is > > normal... > > Well, yes and no. On cygwin, gcc, for example, definitely runs slower than > gcc on linux on the same hardware. Maybe slower when accessing files. A major cause of slowness, where cygwin binutils did not support data or code alignment, was fixed recently. I compare gcc performance on Windows and linux frequently. Don't judge cygwin by an old version. >But there are some common sources of > extra slowness such as antivirus scanners, accessing network drives, etc. > Also if you're like me and have a Athlon XP2400+ linux box and a Pentium > 233MMX laptop, the speed difference is... noticeable. > -- Tim Prince -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/