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> That's bad news for me. I understand it will be easy for developpers,
> but the use of Mingw (a great product otherwise) means that Ruby
> will be slower and it's use will decline among the windows community.
>
> Andrew.
>

Slower? Maybe you're confusing MinGW with Cygwin. MinGW is not a *nix
emulation for Windows, is GCC native version.

Here you have some numbers of latest performance of One-Click
Installer MinGW based:

http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/04/24/contributions-speedup-and-less-quirks-for-us/

Is 30% faster than VC6 build of ruby, also, more easy to get some
extensions working.

You can also see my post about speed comparison with VC9:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubyinstaller-devel/2008-January/000230.html

Regards,
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Luis Lavena