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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:36:42 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: Re[2]: Slow fork issue - Win x64
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My speeds are even slower than those posted:

Prashant AT HOME [~]
$ while (true); do date; done | uniq -c
      1 Tue Jan 20 22:25:50 AUSEDT 2009
      1 Tue Jan 20 22:25:51 AUSEDT 2009
      2 Tue Jan 20 22:25:52 AUSEDT 2009
      1 Tue Jan 20 22:25:53 AUSEDT 2009
      2 Tue Jan 20 22:25:54 AUSEDT 2009
      2 Tue Jan 20 22:25:55 AUSEDT 2009
      1 Tue Jan 20 22:25:56 AUSEDT 2009
      3 Tue Jan 20 22:25:57 AUSEDT 2009
      1 Tue Jan 20 22:25:58 AUSEDT 2009
      2 Tue Jan 20 22:25:59 AUSEDT 2009
      2 Tue Jan 20 22:26:00 AUSEDT 2009
      2 Tue Jan 20 22:26:01 AUSEDT 2009

I am running cygwin 1.5.25, Windows 2008 x64 on a Intel Core 2 @ 2.13ghz.
One CPU is maxed to 100% when forking. This speed explained why opening bash
took as long as 10 seconds, and I wanted to find out why it was so slow.

Is it possible to profile the implementation easily?
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