Hi! On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote: > > I see more a problem for the fork() and exec() calls, they are naturally > > expensive system calls. > > Well, no solution has advantages only. However, on a faster machine, > this wouldn't be a big problem. I actually saw something like that > working on a NeXT - where even desktop clock executed /bin/date to get > the current time - and it worked rather well. Well, MiNT's fork() and exec() code is very slow - especially due to the lack of virtual memory support. For example, running a configure script on the Milan is still a lot slower than it was on the 68030 based HP-UX machines I worked with some years ago. For a start, do something like time /bin/ls -lF /bin | wc in a shell and compare the result with opening /bin in Thing, jinnee or any other desktop. (Note: I haven't tested this, I only assume the "winner" will be the desktop). Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
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