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Re: groff 1.23.0.rc4 on mingw


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: groff 1.23.0.rc4 on mingw
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:52:45 +0200

Yesterday I wrote:
> posix_spawn is faster than fork()+exec() on Linux/glibc, because some
> effort has been made to optimize that. I'm not aware of a similar effort
> for Cygwin, and won't do it myself either.

The situation regarding posix_spawn on Cygwin is a bit complicated and
not optimal. I wrote to the Cygwin people, in order to improve it:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-April/253495.html

Bruno






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