On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:40 AM David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org> wrote:

> That said, FreeBSD also runs very well under Hyper-V, so if you have
> enough RAM then you may find that a better option.  In my experience,
> compilers that spawn a new process for every file (e.g. gcc, clang) are
> noticeably faster in a FreeBSD VM on Windows than in WSL or native in
> Windows (and a *lot* faster than their cygwin versions).
>
> David
>

Thanks David, running FreeBSD VM using Hyper-V wasn't something I had
considered before; I thought
my options would've been limited to using WSL or Cygwin/msys2 to get it to
compile on Windows.

I'll go see if I'm allowed to use Hyper-V on my company-issued laptop...

- Eric
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