Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:43:58 -0700 From: Eric Joyner <erj@freebsd.org> To: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building freebsd on another OS Message-ID: <CA%2Bb0zg93gptUjVO=vDtLKxOa=QybMg40Oaqg1tDKLELebM=P5Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cff577e1-4a49-6b06-1115-b413a931d8cb@FreeBSD.org> References: <8BA3B71BA1BE4249A17369318459EC144F16ADB3@DAG.uvawise.edu> <9c1cf7c9-e2f1-ba2d-b6e8-c4b691b24c61@selasky.org> <CA%2Bb0zg9xQudJkE9VsCxHt6r=qPi8AbQpH%2BE925DkXt6vhThg-g@mail.gmail.com> <cff577e1-4a49-6b06-1115-b413a931d8cb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 5:40 AM David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> wrote: > That said, FreeBSD also runs very well under Hyper-V, so if you have > enough RAM then you may find that a better option. In my experience, > compilers that spawn a new process for every file (e.g. gcc, clang) are > noticeably faster in a FreeBSD VM on Windows than in WSL or native in > Windows (and a *lot* faster than their cygwin versions). > > David > Thanks David, running FreeBSD VM using Hyper-V wasn't something I had considered before; I thought my options would've been limited to using WSL or Cygwin/msys2 to get it to compile on Windows. I'll go see if I'm allowed to use Hyper-V on my company-issued laptop... - Eric
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