LeoDavidson said:wkempf said:*snip*Yeah, that may be true. When compiling Rockbox under GCC I remember it was horribly slow. I wasn't sure if that was because Cygwin was implemented in an inefficient way, 'or if GCC's compiler for the CPU I was targeting wasn't very optimized, or if it was just inherently slow to translate between the two APIs given the way GCC used them.
Most of all, though, I don't really want the complexities of two OS instead of one. (I know Cygwin isn't as complex as a second OS but hopefully what I mean is clear: It's a lot of extra configuration and knowledge to take on board just to run one or programs.)
You claim it's big. Let me show you how much the default installation + some of the additional packages I've added take:
- size of the archives: 225 items, totaling 44.5 MB
- size of the installation: 10,440 items, totaling 164.3 MB
That's not big by OS emulation standards no matter how you want to spin it.
