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Re: [PATCH1/2] Use spawn() on Cygwin
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Pavel Fedin |
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Re: [PATCH1/2] Use spawn() on Cygwin |
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Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:24:45 +0400 |
Dear Eli Zaretskii!
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:39:10 +0300 you wrote:
> Is there any discussion we could read about that with the details of
> the problem and how/why does the proposed patch solves it?
The goal of this is exactly what is stated - improve performance.
fork() is extremely slow operation on Cygwin because of Windows'
nature. Make already had all the code so it took quite a short time to
adapt it.
I know that gcc toolchain also uses this for speedup.
There was a short discussion in Cygwin ML with test results, sorry, i
cannot find the URL, Google fails to find it.
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Kind regards, Pavel Fedin