Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Thu Mar 27 08:30:00 GMT 2003

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:59:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>>> 2. Having a complex GUI app like Mozilla ported to Cygwin could
>>> prove to be a stick in which to measure and compare the over
>>> all efficiency and performance of Cygwin. If the "native"
>>> Mozilla and the Cygwin version performed reasonably the same,
>>> then we would know that Cygwin is on track. If the Cygwin
>>> version lagged, it would set concrete goals for the
>>> Cygwin/XFree team.
>>>>That's not going to happen any time soon. XFree86/Cygwin has no 
>>graphics acceleration. Apart from that, little if anything runs as fast 
>>through Cygwin as it does on the Win32 API even if GUI operation is 
>>ignored or irrelevant.
>>>>I don't mean this as a criticism, but just a fact. I imagine the 
>>biggest win would be by getting some graphics acceleration in XFree86.
>>> Yeah, this was my first thought when I saw this thread.
Not exactly. If so, we can try another X server.
However, getting mozilla run on cygwin is a challenge.:-)
>> $app = mozilla;
> print "Why is $app so *slow* on cygwin!"; >
I believe that.
> cgf
>> --

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