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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 02:30:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 01:26:26 +0200, Michael S wrote:

> cygwin is very slow.

I’m sure it is. ;)

> For me the speed and UI convinience are far more important than better
> emulation of obscure POSIX features which is probably important only for
> programs that I would not want to run regardless.

Unfortunately select/poll are a key part of efficient event-driven 
programming. In the 1990s (the heyday of Windows NT) they tried to handle 
all of this with threads, only to discover that, unless you were doing 
something heavily CPU-bound, the programming complexity just wasn’t worth 
it.