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

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?
        regards, tom lane