From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 19 16:04:23 2005
Subject: RE: Building Octave on cygwin with gcc3.3.3
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Frank Palazzolo" <frank dot palazzolo at mcm1 dot com>
Cc: "'Paul Laub'" <tyrosine at gmail dot com>, <help@octave.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:07:23 -0500

On 19-Jan-2005, Frank Palazzolo <frank dot palazzolo at mcm1 dot com> wrote:

| Paul,
| 
| Thanks - I'm aware of the gcc 3.3 problem.  I'm only building under
| cygwin as a temporary step before trying mingw.  I'm wondering if that
| the slowdown will mostly go away then.
| 
| >From those posts, it's sounds like the slowdown is an interaction with
| the runtime, which is different from cygwin to mingw anyways.  I guess
| I'll find out.

No, I think it is because of the switch back to using setjump/longjump
to implement C++ exception handling.

jwe



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