Re: [Swarm-Support] Swarm in Vista

[Steve Railsback]

Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Steve Railsback wrote:
> > But the Cygwin we have Swarm installed in does not work in Vista?
> At least you'd have to update the Cygwin DLL or the base package.  But 
> you should be able to do a normal Cygwn install from their web site and 
> the use the "User URL" to point at the Swarm repository to get the 
> Swarm-related packages.     Don't do it where you can't afford to break 
> things...
> > For 64 bit to work, the limitation is a 64-bit gcc? What do we know 
> > about when there might be one?
> GCC and the rest of the compiler toolchain, yes.   Not for at least a 
> year, maybe more.    (Wild guess.)

OK, now that I've led you on this far...do you have a feel for which 
chips are faster for running Swarm, the "P4" dual core (which are 32 
bit, but faster?) vs. Core 2?

Steve