Re: windows installer

[Fabrice Popineau]

2017-11-17 8:14 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> From: Richard Copley <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 20:45:36 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Jostein Kjønigsen <address@hidden>,
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>, Jostein Kjønigsen <address@hidden>,
>       Drew Adams <address@hidden>, Phillip Lord <address@hidden>
>
> Windows is ridiculously slow to start a new process.

You mean Cygwin and MSYS, not Windows itself, right?  Because 99.99%
of process starting during the build is MSYS Bash starting GCC, Grep,
Find, and other programs.

Actually, it is the CreateProcess() call which is overkill for most of its usages.

From what I have read, the problem comes from attaching default console, 

checking permissions and stuff like that, which fork() does in a very different way.

Windows has been designed for dlls and inter-dlls calls, not for processes communicating

the way Unix did.