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RE: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:56:24 +0100
- Subject: RE: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Thorsten Kampe
> Sent: 25 June 2004 18:50
> * Rajiv Chopra (2004-06-25 17:10 +0200)
> > I'm a bit of a novice to cygwin, but after installing it on
> my PC, I was very
> > pleased with the ability to compile my C++ code with g++
> and get faster runtimes
> > than on our SUN servers at work.
>
> Are you sure of that? For instance Cygwin executables are said to run
> at half the speed of their native windows clones because of the Cygwin
> compatibility layer.
Yes, but a years-old SUN running a SPARC cpu at maybe only a couple of
hundred MHz is still not really a match for a recent PC with a P4 clocked at
up to 3 gigs!
cheers,
DaveK
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