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Re: windows installer
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: windows installer |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:35:26 +0200 |
> From: Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:22:52 +0100
> Cc: Richard Copley <address@hidden>, Jostein Kjønigsen <address@hidden>,
> Emacs developers <address@hidden>, Jostein Kjønigsen <address@hidden>,
> Drew Adams <address@hidden>, Phillip Lord <address@hidden>
>
> > Windows is ridiculously slow to start a new process.
>
> You mean Cygwin and MSYS, not Windows itself, right? Because 99.99%
> of process starting during the build is MSYS Bash starting GCC, Grep,
> Find, and other programs.
>
> Actually, it is the CreateProcess() call which is overkill for most of its
> usages.
> From what I have read, the problem comes from attaching default console,
> checking permissions and stuff like that, which fork() does in a very
> different way.
> Windows has been designed for dlls and inter-dlls calls, not for processes
> communicating
> the way Unix did.
AFAIK, Cygwin (and therefore MSYS) makes this much more expensive due
to fork emulation.
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