Re: Successful compilation with MinGW

[David Bateman]

There is another reason. Do a search on either the gcc bug database or 
the octave mailing lists with octave/cygwin as keywords and you'll find 
out about C++ exception handling in cygwin. In g++ 3.2 it used Dwarf2 
exception handling and in 3.3 and later due to issues with MinGW it 
switched back to setjmp/longjmp (sjlj) exception handling with 
disatereous consequences to octave. That is another keyword you can add 
to your searchs is "slow"... The mingw build doesn't suffer these 
slow-up due the the sjlj exception handling and the full reasons for 
them are unknown.

So if you want a version of octave under windows that won't be 
embrassing slow on for-loops in particular you need mingw...

Regards
David



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