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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-12-20 10:20:06 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-12-20 10:20:06 +0100
commitba498367be553fc644c865d9cc57994e9841c895 (patch)
tree467a29ac5865ebda92624114fe5dab81b2591127 /glibc
parent4c271981458950b345171d7b7a24fc63127deae0 (diff)
open_issues/performance: RPC overhead.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/glibc/fork.mdwn b/glibc/fork.mdwn
index 378fe835..496dc743 100644
--- a/glibc/fork.mdwn
+++ b/glibc/fork.mdwn
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ task|microkernel/mach/task]]. The address space can simply be duplicated by
standard means of the [[microkernel/Mach]], but as [[unix/file_descriptor]]s
(for example) are a concept that is implemented inside [[glibc]] (based on
[[Mach port|microkernel/mach/port]]s), these have to be duplicated from
-userspace, which requires a small number of [[RPC]] for each of them.
-
-In sum, [[this affects performance|open_issues/performance/fork]] when new
+userspace, which requires a small number of [[RPC]]s for each of them, and in
+the sum, [[this affects performance|open_issues/performance/fork]] when new
processes are continuously being spawned from the shell, for example.
Often, a `fork` call will eventually be followed by an `exec`, which [[may in