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RE: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:15:30 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > From: Eric Blake
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()
> >
> > According to Christopher Faylor on 11/15/2006 9:51 AM:
> > >
> > > Fully implementing posix_spawn is quite a bit of work although I did
> > > tell Linus Torvalds that I'd look into implementing it in Cygwin
> > > eventually (it would make git-on-cygwin faster).
> >
> > Wow - Linus actually cares about what happens on cygwin?
>
> Um, Eric... That's called that "name dropping".
Now, wouldn't Linus object to be called a "dropping"?..
Igor
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