On 10/21/2015 12:12 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:11:38AM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[...]
My finance folks also rave about Pandas. I wish I could fork myself to
look into it.
[...]
Unfortunately, forking a human process takes 9 months to spawn the new
process (slow OS, y'know), and the new process's module constructor
takes about 18 or so years to run before it's ready for use. :-D Also,
the specs are ambiguous in some key areas of the semantics, so
implementations in practice don't quite manage to replicate the original
process exactly.
As one with two spawned forks underway, I totally agree. Besides, early
versions tend to consume a lot of resources, emit many nonmaskable
interrupts, and leak a lot. -- Andrei
