Re: [PERFORM] What do the Windows pg hackers out there like

Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> writes:
> 
>>I was doing exactly this about a year ago and used Mingw. The only 
>>annoyance was that I could compile everything on Linux in about 3 
>>minutes (P4 2.8Ghz), but had to wait about 60-90 minutes for the same 
>>thing on Windows 2003 Server! (also a P4 2.8Ghz...). So I used to build 
>>a 'go for coffee' task into the build and test cycle.
> 
> 
> Youch!  That seems unbelievably bad, even for Microsloth.  Did you ever
> identify what was the bottleneck?
> 

No - I was connecting using an RDB client from a Linux box (over a LAN), 
so was never sure how much that was hurting things... but (as noted by 
Magnus) the compiler itself is noticeablely slower (easily observed 
during the 'configure' step).

cheers

Mark