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. -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
