Re: Copy-on-write fork

2002-10-22 Thread Sven Köhler
Repeat after me: don't open old threads. oops ... didn't know that rule after which time is a thread an old thread? However I'll let you off this once, because you are using a newsreader and I've made the same mistake before. Thx If you think copy on write is faster, then feel free to do

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-10-21 Thread Chris January
A test program and statistics are shown below which clearly show Cygwin's fork implementation in the lead. how much memory did your programs allocate prior to fork()ing? copy-on-write might only apply to applications with high memory-usage. another thing i didn't understand was, why you

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-10-21 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Repeat after me: don't open old threads. However I'll let you off this once, because you are using a newsreader and I've made the same mistake before. BTW: As long as it's open, I did try to compile and link with the libfork.a you(?) sent me, to try it on XP, and got nowhere. I couldn't link

Re: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:06:55AM +0100, Chris January wrote: This is mainly a question aimed at Christopher Faylor, but maybe someone else knows the answer. My question is, with regard to Chris's post Re: copy-on-write (oh well)

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
cgf wrote: I assume that one possible reason is that the copy-on-write fork may be somehow bypassing normal in-memory sharing of text segments but I never knew for sure. Have either of you tried this comparison on XP, to see if it's any different there? I'm running XP here, if Chris J.

RE: Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Copy-on-write fork This is mainly a question aimed at Christopher Faylor, but maybe someone else knows the answer. My question is, with