Yay! :)

By the way - an additional benefit of using Cygwin builds is that gcc supports OpenMP, which Visual Studio Express (I don't have a full version) only started supporting in the 2012 version. So you get more parallel code (at least until I start releasing VS2012 builds).

If you want some more performance oomph - go into "ccmake" in your build directory, find the "CMAKE_C_FLAGS" and "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS" variables and add the following to both (!):

-march=nocona -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse

(This is assuming you have an x86_64-capable CPU, but these days, who doesn't?)

Best,
  Torsten