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Re: master 2c79a8f 2/2: Use posix_spawn if possible.
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: master 2c79a8f 2/2: Use posix_spawn if possible. |
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Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:53:00 +0200 |
> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 01:12:36 +0000
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> > posix_spawn is supposed to be significantly faster than fork/exec on
> > macOS and Cygwin.
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> Thanks Alan, useful info. However Philipp started with Linux, so there
> ought to also be something useful there that motivated these patches. I
> would be interested to learn what helps on Linux.
AFAIK, the speedup also happens on GNU/Linux.