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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:24:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: CygWin Security & Performance Issues
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:36 AM, David Law wrote:
(snip)
>
> Firstly, I was wondering if SUA maybe has a reputation for
> bad performance, or could it maybe be the architecture of
> desktop contra server pc's?
> Would you expect better performance from cygwin?
>

I was involved in porting a project with a Unix background (Solaris,
then Cygwin and Linux, and even FreeBSD) to SUA. I was expecting SUA
to be slightly faster than Cygwin since it has its own subsystem
rather than being implemented on top of Win32. However compilation
times (for a bit over 200k lines of C++) were almost identical.
Unfortunately, our project uses poll(), which on SUA does not work
(except for /proc).

Note that SUA has a rather BSD-ish flavor (for instance, bash is not
even present in the default install); whereas Cygwin is very much like
the GNU system.

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