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Re: I have installed cygwin under GNU/Linux + Wine, but the file i/o is so slow.


On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> eric zhao, le Sun 10 Aug 2008 09:14:10 +0800, a écrit :
>> After install cygwin under wine,
>> I try to run "tar -xvf linux-2.6.25.7.tar.bz2".
>> It spent about 20 minutes.
>>
>> How to improve the file i/o performance?
>
> Errr, by not piling software emulation layers? :)
> Seriously, why do you need to do that?

I want to compile some win32 OSS in my linux box just for fun.
I know this might sound crazy!

Thanks anyway!

Eric Zhao

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