From: Robert Oliver <rob@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T11:38:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How do I tell when I'm on Cygwin?

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On 10/24/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>
> Really? Curt, Austin? Is native (one-click) Ruby 1.8.5 slower on, say, a
> 933 MHz Pentium III running Windows than, say, a gcc-compiled (O2) Ruby
> on the same hardware?


I've found this true before.  The Cygwin version simply performs better by a
significant margin than the one-click.

I will run some benchmarks again and post as well, as I don't have the old
figures handy.


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