fork vs. posix_spawn (vfork)

Mon Oct 15 14:03:54 UTC 2018

On 10/14/18 7:36 AM, notna wrote:
> Hi D gurus.
> 
> Did read an interesting post form GitLab [1] how they improved 
> performance by 30x by just going to go_v1.9... because they again went 
> from "fork" to "posix_spawn"...
> 
> I've searched the GitHub DLANG org for "posix_spawn" and didn't find a 
> hit... so asking myself and you.... is DLANG still on "fork" and could 
> there be some performance improvement potential?
> 
> [1] 
> https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/23/how-a-fix-in-go-19-sped-up-our-gitaly-service-by-30x/ 
> 
> 

Related:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14770

-Steve