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RE: OT: possible project/research project
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:31:33 -0600
- Subject: RE: OT: possible project/research project
> I would certainly agree with you about that, but the fact remains, a lot
> of code, that cygwin exists to ease the porting of, uses it. If the work
> was done on fork itself, it would help speed-up a lot more that just
> configure (or similar) scripts.
>
> Stephano Mariani
The thing is, a lot of work *has* been done to make fork as efficient as
possible. But there's a limit on how fast you can create a new process and
duplicate the current one into it. And Windows doesn't go out of its way to
help.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.
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