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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-11-26 09:33:49 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-11-26 09:33:49 +0100
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[[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_hurd]]
-On Unix systems, `fork` is a rather simple system call. Our implementation in
-[[glibc]] is / needs to be rather bulky. TODO: elaborate.
-
-This affects performance when new processes are continuously being spawned from
-the shell, for example.
-
-Alternatives: use `posix_spawn`. Others?
+Our [[`fork` implementation|glibc/fork]] is nontrivial.
To do: hard numbers.
[[Microbenchmarks]]?