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Re: Win32 version of XFree86
- To: Kendall Bennett <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
- Subject: Re: Win32 version of XFree86
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 22:20:34 -0400
- Cc: Suhaib Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>, "Cygwin-Xfree@Sourceware.Cygnus.Com" <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>, Rich Thomson <rich.thomson@xmission.com>
- References: <199908191921.PAA24244@inspire.InspirePharm.Com> <NDBBLHPPKKBKPBLLMFJBAEOOCBAA.Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com> <199908191954.MAA01296@cygnus.com>
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 12:52:32PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote:
>Certainly getting it all working with GCC first is a more desireable
>option then, but I would like to be able to build with MSVC and other
>Win32 compilers because they produce much better code than GCC does
>(although 2.9.5 may be better now).
I think that recent benchmarks have shown that gcc is at least
approaching MSVC speeds in most regards and surpassing it in a
few areas.
I'm not a gcc engineer, however, and I can't give you complete details.
I can say that the PII optimizations in our Code Fusion product are
rumored to make linux run as much as 5% faster.
That said, however, it may not be too hard to get things compiled with
MSVC. I would think that the major problems would be environment
related, i.e., how do you handle things like ptys, paths, etc.
-chris