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On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 05:12:19PM +0000, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
>Magnus Holmgren <magnushol <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I did some testing on my 64-bit Vista system, and it appears that 
>> CreateThread is the main cause.
>
>I think I've found the reason for the slow CreateThread. It seems like
>the following remark in the MSDN documentation is relevant, at least for
>WOW64 processes:
>
> * During process startup and DLL initialization routines, new threads can
>   be created, but they do not begin execution until DLL initialization is
>   done for the process.

Which was precisely why sigproc_init was called there to begin with.

cgf

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