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Tim Prince wrote:
> Vincent R. wrote:
>
>> Ok finally I got my answers, I am cross-compiling and everything is so
>> SLOWWWWWWWW
>> that I will have to install Windows XP ...
>> Is it because of the couple laptop(Dell XPS M1530)/Vista or does it come
>> from Vista itself ?
> You didn't say whether you have sufficient RAM, why you would not consider
> 64-bit or SSD if you are serious about Vista.  Not that we want your
> answer.  cygwin is agonizingly slow for many jobs, even on XP SP3.  You'll
> see the reasons in the archives of this group.

Cygwin on Vista 64b with sufficient memory (6GB) can be scads faster 
than with any prior version of windoze,
and most especially faster than Vista 32b!

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