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Subject: cygwin fork()
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Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath,
terribly slow for some reason? While building projects using libtool
(which using heavy sh, hence fork() calls) I regularly have to fire off
'make -j16's just to get around waiting ages when using a single make job.

-cl

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