Re^2: win32: distributing dll hell

That's the long term goal, yes. I don't know how the things are now, but before I always experienced that perl compiled with gcc using cygwin/mingw runtime is significantly slower.

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Re^3: win32: distributing dll hell by bart (Canon) on Jun 20, 2007 at 10:18 UTC
In what way? Is it startup time for perl, or the execution speed once it's running? AFAIK gcc has always had a reputation of making one of the better C compilers. So, I would not expect the code generated by gcc to run "slow". Cygwin requires use of a private DLL containing a linking layer between the internal Unix-like API and the native Win32 API, but MinGW allegedly builds real native Windows programs, that don't require an external DLL either, so I would expect MinGW to perform better, or at least not worse, than Cygwin. But those are my expectations, I do not have any benchmark data to back them up.	[reply]

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Re^3: win32: distributing dll hell
by bart (Canon) on Jun 20, 2007 at 10:18 UTC

AFAIK gcc has always had a reputation of making one of the better C compilers. So, I would not expect the code generated by gcc to run "slow".

Cygwin requires use of a private DLL containing a linking layer between the internal Unix-like API and the native Win32 API, but MinGW allegedly builds real native Windows programs, that don't require an external DLL either, so I would expect MinGW to perform better, or at least not worse, than Cygwin.

But those are my expectations, I do not have any benchmark data to back them up.

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