Writing Code Quicker

[Rincewind]

Just for you cygwin people looking for a point of reference, it takes my Linux computer at home, that cost me $250 to build total, 4 minutes and 41 seconds to SVN update, make clean, and then compile a build for H120, Gigabeat F, Archos Recorder, Nano, and Sansa, and then make zips out of each of those builds and move them to a folder that I can download from over the web.

So, five builds plus zip creation when I frequently hear of 7-10 minute build times for a single build in cygwin.

you should say _when_ you paid $250 for it. My Computer cost more than that but has a Athlon 1600 and a single clean compile (without svn up and make zip) takes me 5 minutes on linux already. I know this has mostly to do with my slow sdram, but my point is, price is not a good comparison point here.

[Llorean]

It cost me $250 a few months ago. But my point is more "Cygwin is very, VERY slow"

[tdtooke]

Anybody ever tried it in MSYS?  I could be wrong, but in theory you might be able to setup the cross-complier with that developers script in tools.  It wouldn't be as fast as linux native, but it might be a noticeable improvement on Cygwin.

[Llorean]

I tried MSYS, but was unable to get it to work effectively. MSYS itself turned out too unstable on my test system to ever get things set up. It also seemed *very* slow, from an interactive perspective, but again that could've been problems with my setup.

It's worth a shot, I suppose.