On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:28:42PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > 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.
What's clean about importing the VMS process model to Unix?
