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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:51:47AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various
>>"Why is Cygwin so slow????" threads that have been here in the last
>>month. Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms to
>>work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause corresponding slowness
>>for everything.
>
>That's an interesting view. So are you saying that this is why MINGW
>is faster?
No, they just aren't as mean as we are. We like to make things
purposely slow because then people suffer.
cgf
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