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RE: NT4?
> 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.
Thanks,
...Karl
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