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


  • Subject: Re: speed test, anyone?
  • From: jj <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:08:08 +0100
  • Thread-topic: speed test, anyone?

>>   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.

Let's hope no; the behaviour could expand to other commands.


jj

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