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Re: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave


Brian Dessent wrote:

> You might argue that most people
> doing Win32 GUI stuff use MinGW, but a lot of them use Cygwin with
> -mno-cygwin which is MinGW with Cygwin build tools, a very convenient
> combination.  And we can't offer a DW2 Cygwin gcc that uses SJLJ for
> -mno-cygwin as they are really both the same back-end just with
> different headers and runtimes.

Here I meant to add that of course we have discussed deprecating
-mno-cygwin and offering a real MinGW cross in its place, which would
have its own back-end, and thus could have a different exception
handling model.  But by the time you've done all that, you might as well
just package a separate gcc named "gcc-dw2" or whatever and have them
both installable in parallel, to please everybody.  This is what Danny
did with his 4.2 MinGW releases.

Brian

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