Can I speed up cygwin's fork?
- by Andrew Aylett
I came across a post discussing the speed of forking in Cygwin, giving an expected 'fork rate' in Windows XP of around 30-50 per-second (link)
I've got a Core 2 duo (1.79GHz) which I would expect to get comparable results, but it's only managing around 8 forks per second (and sometimes a lot fewer):
$ while (true); do date --utc; done | uniq -c
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