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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > Is it just me or is cygwin fork(), or a support syscall underneath,
> > terribly slow for some reason? 
> 
>   Some reason == "lack of O/S support".

Yes I can understand that. I'm assuming there is some CreateProcess()
magic happening behind the scenes. However, what I've noticed is that it
is WAY slower than one would think it to be.

-cl

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