Quantifying the time overhead of Cygwin make

Tor Lillqvist tml at iki.fi
Thu Jun 12 00:00:55 PDT 2014


> What would be interesting to see is a bench mark in terms of compilation
> times and evaluate if its really worth changing the ABI and breaking
> compatability.

Of course it isn't. Imagine telling a customer "yes, we know the
binary extensions that are business critical to you and which you
probably can't re-create don't work any more, but it is much more
convenient for us to be able to build a few hours faster!".

--tml


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