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 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:33:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?) Message-ID: <20050606093311.GE3268@calimero.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3D848382FB72E249812901444C6BDB1D03E04FD3@exchange.timesys.com> <20050602190022.GG6597@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050602190022.GG6597@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jun 2 15:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You could do things the other way around, so that NtCreateFile is used > in the main code which invokes a NtCreateFile wrapper for 9x systems but > I am leery of doing things this way since that means that the only > people capable of writing code for cygwin are the people who understand > Nt* calls. That is a subset of the already small number of people who > understand the UNIX and Windows APIs well enough to work on Cygwin. I don't see this as such a big problem. The Nt calls are not used all over the place and they are not needed all over the place. Using them carefully and in a well documented manner should keep it pretty simple to follow. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/