On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 07:22:42 UTC, Manu wrote:
I agree that spawning processes is a low-frequency operation,
but it's a
principle I'm trying to illustrate here.
My point was that it is not that it's low-frequency, it's that
the OS process creation operation is so expensive, that a few
memory allocations will not make much of a difference in
comparison. It's the same as optimizing memory allocations in a
program which is intrinsically disk- or network-bound.
You can argue whatever you like. I've said my part, and I
wherever it lands is not my call.
Well, that's just not very constructive.
Your complaint in valid in general, but I was pointing out that
it is not much so when specifically aimed at std.process.
