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Re: speed test, anyone?
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Re: speed test, anyone?


  • Subject: Re: speed test, anyone?
  • From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:01:06 -0500

Obviously we need a new standard addition: "do shell script with wild abandon"...

D

On Nov 6, 2005, at 4:58 AM, Emmanuel wrote:

  Your performance problem is still under analysis, but seems to have mostly to do with a switch from vfork(2) to fork(2) to create the new process.  This was done for reasons of correctness: vfork(2) is not guaranteed to work right except under very stringent requirements that "do shell script" cannot obey.


It cannot obey but the question is, does it burn cars.


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