Re: Serious performance problems (malloc related?)

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:39:17PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>I am leery of doing things this way since that means that the only
> >>people capable of writing code for cygwin are the people who understand
> >>Nt* calls.  That is a subset of the already small number of people who
> >>understand the UNIX and Windows APIs well enough to work on Cygwin.
> >
> >You mean, like 2?  (Err, 3.  I mean, 4, or maybe 5..)
> >
> >I'm not sure this is a huge problem, you know..
>
> Just take a look at the number of people who have contributed to
> cygwin-patches in the last year or so.  I wouldn't want to scare away
> the people who contribute trivial patches because they can't find any
> documentation on "NtCreateFile".
>
> I suppose *we* could produce documentation on the Nt* functions but
> that's also a support burden.

If the Cygwin team had to write 9x wrappers for the Nt* functions, some
documentation would have to be part of the wrappers, wouldn't it?  Even if
it's pointers to MSDN in the comments before those functions, that would
be pretty helpful.

> OTOH, "leery" doesn't mean "it will never happen".  This is just one
> of many things to consider when making a major change like this.

It's a tempting change, though... :-)
	Igor
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