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[Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>]

Hi Andrew,

>And I might say that your enthusiasm is exciting and infectious.

You made my day. Like I told Ranjit, it's so nice to be around people
who are passionate about coding for a change. This is an opportunity
for me (and anyone who wants to get involved) to not only multiply my
neural pathways, but also unashamedly indulge in doing something that's
just plain fun, regardless of whether it's the latest technology that's
going to make me more marketable in the workplace. It's like logic
puzzles on steroids.

> > building GCC on MingW is not an easy task. Contrast this to the
> > speed (~3 hours) at which I can build the cross-compiler and native
> > compiler on Linux and it is no contest.
>
>I wonder why that is.

I'm not incriminating Windows. The Visual Studio command-line equivalents
of make, gcc, etc. scream on Win32. It probably has to do with MSYS
(the MingW bash equivalent) having to translate POSIX pathnames before
feeding them to Win32 processes it spawns or something like that. Ranjit
or some MSYS guru could explain this better than me.

-- Mohan
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