Re: [perl #128227] vfork should be used for spawning externalprocesses

via RT wrote:
>In my attached example (vfork.perl) using Inline::C, it only takes
>around 3 seconds to vfork+execve+waitpid "/bin/true" 10000 times
>on my system.  With the Perl CORE::system() function, it takes
>11-12 seconds(!). 

This is not a fair comparison.  You should compare standard CORE::system()
against an equivalent implementation of the system op that uses vfork
instead of fork, because that's the change that you're proposing we
should make.

-zefram

• [perl #128227] vfork should be used for spawning external processes by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #128227] vfork should be used for spawning externalprocesses by Leon Timmermans
• Re: [perl #128227] vfork should be used for spawning externalprocesses by Eric Wong
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• Re: [perl #128227] vfork should be used for spawning externalprocesses by Zefram
• Re: [perl #128227] vfork should be used for spawning externalprocesses by Eric Wong