On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 04:18:38PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > If it doesn't perform better -- do I misunderstand, or is that in fact the > case -- why dirty up the system with this superfluous interface?
No, I'm just saying that it does not make the existing fork/exec path slower. We don't have full solid benchmark results yet, but overall it looks like: - fork/exec performance does not degrade - posix_spawn performance is very similar to vfork/exec (which is not too suprising) I prefer a clean posix_spawn over a vfork hack any time. Where not possible (see mouse's mail), we can stick with vfork - it won't go away. Martin
