From: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Subject: Re: cygwin b17.1 system() using inefficient fork() instead of true vfork() 21 Jan 1997 19:09:54 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <009AEB8D.875742C0.7834.cygnus.gnu-win32@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> Original-To: pcollins AT best DOT com Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, you wrote: : If you are doing a lot of malloc calls on NT you should check out : smartheap by Microquill. [...] See www.microquill.com. Thanks, I'll have a look at it. [browsing a while] Not cheap, IMHO, but it seems in our case there are at least no royalties. Although my point was performance of forking large processes, I hope smartheap will work and not make it worse. Could there be problems with gcc/gdb/cygwin32 on NT? So far I only used the standard (read: no cost) calloc on unix. Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de) - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".