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Re: NT4?


On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 02:32:58PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:58:10 -0400
>> From: cgf
>> Subject: Re: NT4?
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:47:43PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
>> >
>> >At some point, would there be any (significant) performance advantage to
>> >moving (some of the) platform differences to compile time? (Not for all of
>> >the applications, just for the Cygwin DLL and perhaps cygserver?
>>
>> You mean something like:
>>
>> gcc -DALLOW_NT4 something-random-program.c
>>
>> There would be no benefit whatsoever to allowing something like that since
>> there would still have to be accommodations in cygwin to handle it the
>> antique platform.
>>
>No, not that at all. I was asking about platform specific Cygwin DLL builds.

Oh, in that case:  Same answer.  We're trying to eliminate head standing in
the code, not make more work for ourselves by introducing different variants
of cygwin1.dll.

cgf

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