Garrett Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > But what, that uses LWPCTL, are you actually supposed to be doing after > > vfork()? Whack some environment variables and some globals -- maybe -- > > then exec*(). What else is legitimate? > > > > If it doesn't slow down vfork, great, fix whatever. But vfork > > performance really is critical. Look how much slower, for example, > > FreeBSD builds the system than we do. vfork is a huge part of that. > > Hi Thor, > Do you have performance metrics to back up your statement below > about `FreeBSD build[ing] the system slower than we do' (paraphrased)?
http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/5.0/img15.html Note: it uses the same toolchain (i.e. same make, gcc, etc). However, I suppose FreeBSD team is aware of these. -- Mindaugas
