On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > the child and the parent) is faster than C's system (which does > a fork and then executes a new process image).
I expressed that awkwardly. C's system() does a fork() and then the child process does an exec() on some program and the parent does a wait() until the child exits. The point I was trying to make is that windows is "optimized" for what a unix programmer would think of as the fork(), child exec() case, and fork by itself winds up being very slow. FYI, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
