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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:31:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: vfork implementation
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> In benchmarks, this vfork is *at least* twice as fast as a normal fork.
> 

This is worth including it in the next release.

> So what do you think?  Is this good enough to go into the mythical next
> net release (B21)?  Should I make it a cygwin option, i.e.
> CYGWIN=fastvfork?

Not worth doing, the code I've seen that contains vfork always checks to see if
it's available.  If you don't want it just undefine the HAVE_VFORK or what ever
macro.

===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>

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