# HG changeset patch # User Tatsuro Matsuoka # Date 1207275175 14400 # Node ID 79462337c892d7bf1082bab4fc429142edf98d99 # Parent 8e5371d47da6dc23a7265af428e08a4f69a8f882 update README.Cygwin diff -r 8e5371d47da6 -r 79462337c892 ChangeLog --- a/ChangeLog Thu Apr 03 21:56:23 2008 -0400 +++ b/ChangeLog Thu Apr 03 22:12:55 2008 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2008-04-03 Tatsuro MATSUOKA + + * README.Cygwin: Update. + 2008-04-02 Jaroslav Hajek * acx_blas_f77_func.m4: New file. diff -r 8e5371d47da6 -r 79462337c892 README.Cygwin --- a/README.Cygwin Thu Apr 03 21:56:23 2008 -0400 +++ b/README.Cygwin Thu Apr 03 22:12:55 2008 -0400 @@ -12,10 +12,47 @@ Cygwin mailing lists for threads related to "sjlj exception handling" (or similar). +There are also two "unofficial" Octave distributions for Cygwin: + + 1. http://www.geocities.jp/tmacchant + + The binaries here are built using gcc-3.4.4-3 configured with + --disable-sjlj-exceptions. Performance is improved by using DWARF + exception handling instead of setjump/longjump exception + handling. However, to build dynamically loaded .oct files that + will work with this version of Octave, you must use the same + specially configured version of GCC that was used to build Octave + itself and not the version of GCC that is distributed with + Cygwin. + + This binary is maintained by Tatsuro Matsuroka. + + + 2. http://matzeri.altervista.org + + The binaries here aim to be an officail cygwin distribution of + Octave-3.0.x and are built using the version of GCC distributed + with Cygwin. Performance of linear algebra functions is fine, but + the performance of the scripting language interpreter suffers + because of the setjump/longjump exception handling model used in + the version of GCC distributed with Cygwin. The advantage is that + you don't need a special version of GCC. + + This binary is maintained by Marco Atzeri + +We hope that Cygwin will eventually have a version of GCC that does +not suffer from the performance problem related to setjump/longjump +exception handling. + John W. Eaton jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering -Last updated: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:21:43 EDT +Tatsuro MATSUOKA +tmacchant@yahoo.co.jp +Department of Molecular Design and Engineering, +Gradudate School of Engineering, Nagoya University. + +Last updated: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:01:48 EDT