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Performance


Someone on another mailing list suggested the applications ported to Win32
using Cygwin are not up to scratch.

I don't understand why this might be: the compiler produces native x86
(and presumably very good!) code for the user space code and for UNIX
system calls, they would be handled by the DLL with a secondary call into
the Windows kernel.

Does anyone have any performance comparisons between "Cygwin" apps and
native Win32 applications?  Is there any real performance penalty for
software with a high proportion of system calls?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Elliston
<bje@air.net.au>

"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. I put them in the same
 room and let them fight it out." -- Steven Wright

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