From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:50:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] fork/exec removal series
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710140348550.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071014021149.GO27899@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Since builtin-pack-objects now accepts (limited) pthread support, 
> perhaps this should be implemented in terms of pthread support when 
> pthreads are available?

Falling back to fork() when no pthreads are available?  Yes, that makes 
sense.

It might also (marginally) speed up operations, since the switches between 
threads are cheaper than those between processes, right?

Ciao,
Dscho