Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org> writes: > >> seems like very low-hanging fruit... > > > Pushed; I wonder if this actually improves the execution time of > configure scripts on Cygwin?
Running coreutils' config.status --recheck on cygwin, the user time attribution changed from 9m45.758s to 8m59.487s. So yes, it does make a difference to avoid forks. -- Eric Blake
