Improvements to fork handling (2/5)

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue May 24 17:03:00 GMT 2011


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:47:36PM -0400, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>The best way to improve performance of this part of fork() would be to 
>figure out how to force a dll to load in the right place on the first 
>try. Achieving this admittedly "difficult" task would eliminate multiple 
>syscalls per dll, the aggregate cost of which dominates the topsort into 
>oblivion unless I'm very mistaken.

Right.  And, if we could cure cancer no one would suffer from cancer
anymore.

cgf



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