| ??? 08/21/06 09:30 Read: times |
#122685 - Portability Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Cygwin adds a command shell to Windows which supports the Linux/Unix APIs (operating system calls). It allows software suppliers to port a Unix application to Windows more quickly than converting it to a Windows native application. Xilinx and Altera both have GUIs for design entry and the like, and then call command line compilers/synthesisers/simulators etc, to do most of the grunt work. The calls to the operating system don't usually take much time, so using Cygwin shouldn't really slow things down.
I've noticed that the Altera Quartus tools use Java for the GUI, and they are noticeably slower than the old, native Windows, Maxplus tools. I don't know whether the slow down is due to bloatware or the Java overhead though. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| who is imbecile Xilinx or the "GNU group"? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| probably an ex microsoft employee | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Thats why | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Jez, oh Jez | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I dont see it | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I compared to Lattice | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| A curse on software installations | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| mentor's notorious | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| still no answer | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Context | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| any idiot | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Xilinx and gnu | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It DID download much more slowly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Xilinx website | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| would that be | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Most of my clients don't speak HDL ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| thanks Andy | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Same as Altera then! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So, besides slowing everything to a crawl, what do | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Cygwin doesn't slow things down | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Had it been the GUI, then a few minutes would have | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Portability | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| we are drifting | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
I've found it ridiculous too. | 01/01/70 00:00 |