On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:17 PM, John Chludzinski <
john.chludzinski at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Mariano Martinez Peck marianopeck at gmail.com wrote ...
> >
> > The thing is the license with Cygwin. You must attach cygwin dll with
> your
> > program (SqueakVM in this case) :(
> > MinGW as the name says, it is smaller and in my case (I did this for
> OpenDBX
> > library) it was much more faster than cygwin. Obviously that's if the app
> > you want to compile doesn't use certain stuff MinGW can handle. And you
> > don't depend in any external dll like cygwin.
>
> Performance is definitely a consideration (+ whatever licensing issues &
> including the cygwin.dll) .  Do you know how badly (or how well) Cygwin
> performs v. MinGW?  ---John
>

I don't know where can be numbers, but that time, I read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW#Comparison_with_Cygwin
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