On Thursday 16 May 2002 22:10, you wrote:
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> What is the biggest problem here?
> The Shmem/IPC stuff, or the fork() stuff?
> I'm think that we could do a fork() implementation in usermode by copying
> the memory allocations. How fast that would be regarding the context
> switches, i don't know, but i'm willing to experiment some to see how
> feesible this is...
>
> Anyone tried this before?
>
> Magnus
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The problem is not the fork() call itself, this has been done (MinGW and
cygwin I know of, possibly others) but the speed of fork() on windows, it's
creepingly slow (due to usermode copy, I assume ;-).
IPC needs to be done, I'm just about to start...
Greetings,
Joerg
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