[Xastir] Cygwin

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Henk de Groot wrote:

> Windows systems mimic pipes but instead of running concurrently one
> program fills the pipe completely before the next program can start to
> empty it. If Cygwin didn't find a way arround this, this may well cause the
> excessive use of memory during compile. Maybe it is possible to break
> linkage down into 3 smaller link steps instead of linking all at once to
> make is more bearable, by the looks of it 512 MB is the minimum ammount of
> memory to keep everything in core during linking.

Wow!  I knew it was very inefficient at every compile step compared
to Linux/Unix, but still, wow!

Anybody want to tackle this to see if we can do the link in multiple
stages?  We're getting more and more Windows users.  It'd be good to
get this tweaked before too long if it's possible to do so.

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