From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: Fork Speedup? 2 Feb 1998 09:48:43 -0800 Message-ID: References: <01BD3000 DOT 8E320D20 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru> Reply-To: gnu-win32-developers AT cygnus DOT com To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com In article <01BD3000 DOT 8E320D20 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> That's what got me thinking, actually. I know that your new mechanism >> changes things in the fork code. The last time I looked, it actually had >> a few more "sychronization events" between parent and child than previously. > >One more synchronization point added if data areas of some _dynamically_ >loaded dlls must be copied on fork. If no additional dlls are in use, the >number of synchronization points is the same. Oh. Ok. I thought I remembered two more, but you certainly know better. I'm still looking forward to the eventual inclusion of this patch. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."