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RE: cygwin fork()
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:46:32 +0100
- Subject: RE: cygwin fork()
On 01 September 2006 11:22, clayne@anodized.PCYMTNQREAIYA wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath,
>>> terribly slow for some reason?
>>
>> Some reason == "lack of O/S support".
>
> Yes I can understand that. I'm assuming there is some CreateProcess()
> magic happening behind the scenes. However, what I've noticed is that it
> is WAY slower than one would think it to be.
Why, how slow were *you* expecting it to be? I was expecting it to be 7.
cheers,
DaveK
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