Re: Shall we not use ROOT in cygwin at all ?

Hi Axel

That clarify the situation a lot. On the other hand, using ROOT directly in cygwin is really convenient. I guess the following question is for cygwin team: is there a future plan that to get the cygwin/gcc performance improved?

Thanks
--Wei

Axel Naumann wrote:
> Hi Wei,
>
> I clarified the message a bit on the latest dev download page (it might
> get changed again within the next minutes :-):
>
> "Note that the performance of cygwin/gcc binaries is currently very
> poor; we only provide this build as an unsupported toy. We strongly
> recommend to use the version above compiled with VC++."
>
> This should clarify why we recommend you and others not to use it: the
> performance is absolutely incomparable to MSVC builds. We also don't
> test ROOT on cygwin as thoroughly as on the other platforms. So it's
> really at your own risk, don't blame us if you hate it :-)
>
> Cheers, Axel.
>
> Wei Xie wrote on 06/24/2009 06:33 PM:

>> In the following message, I mean "..we should NOT trust any ..."?
>>
>> Wei Xie wrote:
>>> In the ROOT download website, there is the following note:
>>> --------------------------------------
>>> "Note that cygwin/gcc is currently in a very poor status. We strongly 
>>> recommend to use the win32gdk version above compiled with VC++7.1. 
>>> The ROOT team will not answer any messages related to problems with 
>>> the win32gcc version. "
>>> --------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Since we are using ROOT to do data analysis, does above note mean 
>>> that we should trust any analysis that's done using ROOT in cygwin?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> --Wei
>>>
>>
>>