Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Mar 29 03:40:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:58:50PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>I can't prove a fact, that forking is the most anonying problem and there were
>some initial work from some people (I remember  Chris Faylor, Chris January and
>other) to identify the problems and to implement a new copy-on-write semantic,
>which will be much faster,

You misremember.  I did hobble together a copy-on-write implementation and found
that it was actually slower.  The generic win32 implementation of copy-on-write
isn't powerful enough to completely implement fork anyway.

cgf

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