On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> > Hi Rich, >> > >> > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote: >> > >> > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:27:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: >> > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:08:48AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > 1. is nonzero mod page size, it just works; the remainder of the last >> > > > > page reads as zero bytes when mmapped. >> > > > >> > > > Is that a portable assumption? >> > > >> > > Yes. >> > >> > No, it is not. You quote POSIX, but the matter of the fact is that we use >> > a subset of POSIX in order to be able to keep things running on Windows. >> > >> > And quite honestly, there are lots of reasons to keep things running on >> > Windows, and even to favor Windows support over musl support. Over four >> > million reasons: the Git for Windows users. >> >> I would hope that in the future, git-for-windows users will be using >> musl, via midipix, rather than the painfully slow and awful version >> they're stuck with now... > > Git for Windows actually uses the MSVC runtime, which is blazing fast. > > You are probably confusing Git for Windows with Cygwin Git. To be fair, Cygwin Git isn't *that* slow, though I look forward to the day when MSYS2 can use the native-Windows/GfW version instead (including your rebase-in-C changes) > > Ciao, > Johannes