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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:32:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Robb, Sam wrote:
> > > Is there any reason why the cygwin DLL couldn't be built
> > > twice: once for Win9x, and once for WinNT-based systems?
> > >
> > > Aside from potential installation issues ("install this
> > > version of the DLL under 9x, that version under NT), it
> > > seems like this would be a reasonable optimization.
>
> > As long as we're mulling over ideas...
>
> Alternatively, we could drop Win98 support.

Dropping it altogether would be unfortunate.  Providing Win98 support DLLs
in a separate package is a possibility.  There's still the point that CGF
raised, about there being many more people with the knowledge of Win32 API
than those with the knowledge of Nt* API.
	Igor
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