Re: Old 486 computer & external CD reader advice needed

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 02:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > If I did it in a working scenario I'd install the Cygwin
> > tools and run the same bash script that I'd use on Linux.
> > I'm not sure how this would work as a benchmark though.
> > There may be more efficient ways to spawn processes in
> > windows than the cygwin emulation of fork.
>
> I was actually intending to investigate the context
> switching aspects of XP vs Linux. Installing Cygwin
> seems a little bit high overhead (in disc space, etc.)
> to me. I may have still installed a MinGW on my XP
> partition. That might be a way...

If you calculate that space requirement in terms of
cost at current disk prices it probably wouldn't
sound that bad.