[Xastir] Clarification - system requirements

[Bill Vodall]

> How large is the Cygwin installation?
> 
> On average?
> 
> At a minimum? 

I did two clean installs...

Properties on c:\cygwin for the xastir-min  install show 120 MB (149 MB on Disk)

Properties on c:\cygwin for xastir-devel show 365 MB (425 on Disk).

The "min" install has 10,654 files..   Seems that all windowing systems have
a bit of a software bloat problem.

The XYL's 2 GHz WinXP system with 768 MB ram makes the Xastir/Cygwin
install nearly painless.  It's fun to watch the memory used creep up to nearly 500 MB.

Back when I had only 268 MB (only?) in the system, it would take a very long
time and the CPU usage sat around 3%.  Disk bound swapping can really slow
a compile.

Now the CPU is where it belongs during a compile - at 100%.

Bill
http://www.lintronix.com/winxastir