On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 11:58:33AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 11:22:28PM +0200, Paul Ruizendaal wrote: > > Doing fork/exec sounds expensive, but on a posix box there is not much > > difference between that and spawning a thread: > > http://bulk.fefe.de/scalable-networking.pdf > > Please don't base decisions on questionable micro-benchmarks. fork+exec > is significantly more expensive than thread creation in a > multi-processor environment.
I think exec is not in the game, in fossil. OTH, process creation and destruction have to run, of course, much more code than thread creation and destruction. There is much more isolation and cleanup. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
