Re: Run Gnome -- On Windows (fwd)

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Brian Behlendorf <brian collab net> writes:

> 
> For one reason or another, Apache developers decided that Posix on Windows
> was never going to be a successful API, due to inherent differences with
> any MS architecture and the model Posix was designed for.  This was
> especially true for threads, process management, and I/O efficiency.  I
> could probably ask one of the Apache Win32 developers to write up a white
> paper on why.

I think this is far more applicable to a server application (likely to
be I/O-bound) rather than an end-user graphical application (likely to
be user-interaction-bound).

 - Maciej