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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:51:47AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:>>Christopher Faylor wrote:And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various "Why is Cygwin so slow????" threads that have been here in the last month. Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms to work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause corresponding slowness for everything.
That's an interesting view. So are you saying that this is why MINGW is faster?
No, they just aren't as mean as we are. We like to make things purposely slow because then people suffer.
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