From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T13:01:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How do I tell when I'm on Cygwin?

On 10/24/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> > The only real reason not to use it that I'm aware of is that it is
> > fairly slow.
> > Of course, the native Ruby on Win32 is 10x slower than on Linux for
> > many tasks, so maybe that's not much of a selling point.
> 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?

This is mostly because we're not using the latest compiler. That's one
reason I've been pushing so hard for the use of MSVC8 instead of
MSVC6. A MinGW compile is about 5 - 10% faster than the current MSVC6
(because even the slightly older GCC 3.x is a better compiler than the
many-years-old MSVC6). An MSVC8 compile would be up to 30% faster,
IIRC. I'd have to do some benchmarking, but I'm not on a Windows
machine with that right now.

-austin
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