"Manning, Sid" wrote: > I was surprised to see that I could compile much faster under VMware than on > Cygwin on the same host.
Why is that surprising? Cygwin and VMware work on entirely different principles. Plus your chosen benchmark essentially tests the two slowest aspects of Cygwin, process creation and filesystem access, both of which are particularly fast on Linux. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
