On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:27:47 -0800, Tim Prince <timothypri...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Vincent R. wrote: > >> Ok finally I got my answers, I am cross-compiling and everything is so >> SLOWWWWWWWW >> that I will have to install Windows XP ... >> Is it because of the couple laptop(Dell XPS M1530)/Vista or does it come >> from Vista itself ? > You didn't say whether you have sufficient RAM, why you would not consider > 64-bit or SSD if you are serious about Vista. Not that we want your > answer. cygwin is agonizingly slow for many jobs, even on XP SP3. You'll > see the reasons in the archives of this group. > Hum I got 3 GB of ram, a 2.4 GHz Core2Duo, Nvidia 8600 GT and Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bits) and a 7200 rpm drive. When I say it's slow I am comparing to Windows XP SP3, the same cross-compilation takes twice much time on Vista ...
SSD are you serious!!!! Whay should I spend so much money while the problem is caused by the OS. laptop performance is not the reason -- 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/
