From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
Subject: Re: Opportunistic GC
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:50:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwnuh641e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBf+Ob8SxMDOHEfvrhDj7UwCNYUZy4CWuCLvSGm3DmvxNQ@mail.gmail.com> (Pip Cet's message of "Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:04:32 +0000")
> I'm not sure. I do know some systems prefer using spawn() to fork() +
> exec(), and I always suspected the main reason for that is because
> they do not have an efficient fork().
IIRC the reason is that `fork` can be unnecessarily costly if your
forked application is large and it just wants to spawn a small /bin/sh
process: while `fork` doesn't need to copy the application's pages, it
still has to copy its pagetable(!) and it may have to pre-allocate or
pre-reserve the pages that it may copy-on-write later.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-08 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-08 3:35 Opportunistic GC Stefan Monnier
2021-03-08 7:20 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 8:26 ` martin rudalics
2021-03-08 9:02 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 9:51 ` martin rudalics
2021-03-08 10:44 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 11:37 ` martin rudalics
2021-03-08 12:27 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 18:06 ` martin rudalics
2021-03-08 18:24 ` Concurrent GC via fork (was: Opportunistic GC) Stefan Monnier
2021-03-09 8:10 ` Concurrent GC via fork martin rudalics
2021-03-10 20:35 ` Opportunistic GC Pip Cet
2021-03-08 11:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-08 12:55 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 14:06 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-03-08 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 15:02 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 15:39 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 16:35 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-08 16:11 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-08 14:01 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-03-08 15:04 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-03-08 15:52 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-03-08 16:14 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-03-08 16:18 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-03-08 16:40 ` Philipp Stephani
2021-03-08 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-08 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-10 20:25 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-10 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-11 7:55 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-11 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-11 9:03 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-11 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-11 10:11 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-11 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-09 6:22 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-09 8:11 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-10 5:52 ` Richard Stallman
2021-03-08 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 14:57 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-09 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-10 20:21 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-10 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-11 8:06 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-11 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 16:03 ` Concurrent GC via `fork` (was: Opportunistic GC) Stefan Monnier
2021-03-08 16:25 ` Pip Cet
2021-03-08 17:37 ` Concurrent GC via `fork` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-08 19:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-10 17:18 ` Opportunistic GC Matt Armstrong
2021-03-10 19:38 ` Pip Cet
2022-07-05 1:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-05 13:49 ` T.V Raman
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