On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:43:57PM -0400, MasterMind wrote:

> Is nginx/Windows-0.8.0 compiled under Cygwin? How much slower is the windows version of Nginx compared to the Linux version? I read somewhere that the Cygwin version is 500 times slower than the linux version.

No, nginx/Windows-0.8.0 is native Win32 application built by MSVC8.
nginx/Windows is faster than nginx/Cygwin, see simple localhost
microbenchmarks in thread http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,1199

I believe Unix versions are faster about several times.


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