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Re:The Windows malloc() implementation from MSVCRT is slow by josephcsible on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:19AM (#31965028)
> Ideally you'd like to build for all targets, including older systems, from a single, modern environment (this is trivial in Windows)

https://github.com/sjmulder/netwake does what you're talking about, but it does a lot of gymnastics to make it work, and it also needs to use MinGW rather than MSVC for that to be the case.

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Re:The Windows malloc() implementation from MSVCRT is slow by FreakLegion on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:31AM (#31965084)
I was thinking specifically of how easy it is to build for Windows 2000 even today. Going back to 3.11 is pretty cool!
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