From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:12:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14
Message-ID: <50EB8EB5.6080204@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1udxladc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 01/07/2013 02:29 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> I do not have much stake in this personally, but IIRC, the (l)stat
> workaround was back then found to make Cygwin version from "unusably
> slow" to "slow but torelable", as our POSIX-y codebase assumes that
> lstat is fairly efficient, which Cygwin cannot satisify because it
> has call many win32 calls to collect bits that we do not even look
> at, in order to give faithful emulation.  It does place extra
> maintenance burden
The maintenance burden is the only issue here, and I just wanted to 
point out the origin. I never enable that run-time option, the small 
gain in speed cannot compensate the loss of cross-platform operations 
for my uses. Actually, my git usage is mostly on Linux, but it seems 99% 
of my maintenance time is on the cygwin side that I almost never use. Sigh.

Mark