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Re: [MiNT] desktop from components



Hi!

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 02:52:56PM +0200, Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
> > Well, MiNT's fork() and exec() code is very slow
> 
> So this would be yet another reason to make them faster.

The problem is: How to make them faster without dropping support
for machines without a PMMU? The main problem is that upon fork(),
the complete data/bss segment is duplicated and swapped on each
task switch that activates the process currently "swapped out".

There's no real solution for this that works without a PMMU. And
having / maintaining code that works on both PMMU and non-PMMU
equipped machines is a PITA.


Ciao

Thomas


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