MINGW32 + performencs ( was Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] directx, typo, fs )

[Joey Parrish]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 05:11:36PM +0300, Raindel Shachar wrote:
> About the performences issue: I have noticed that muting Mplayer's output
> (or redirecting it to a file instead of a cygwin console) has significally
> improved mplayer's performences on my system (I use win 98 for testing
> cygwin/MINGW32 builds) when the console window was in the background.

Yes, I've noticed that much.  That's one of the reasons that my cygwin
packages use a wrapper script when possible to eliminate the console
window.  The other reason, of course, is that windows folks don't
want/expect to see a bunch of text output.

--Joey