From:	cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: Fork Speedup?
2 Feb 1998 09:48:43 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<EnrFqy.3ID.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
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  <gnu-win32-developers AT cygnus DOT com> 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.
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