From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 21:07:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B10216A4CE; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:07:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fillmore.dyndns.org (port-212-202-50-15.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.50.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D626843D1D; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:07:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com) Received: from [172.16.0.11] (helo=localhost) by fillmore.dyndns.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1Bb453-000Nro-Fx; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:05:55 +0200 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:05:52 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) To: "Cyrille Lefevre" From: Oliver Eikemeier In-Reply-To: <065a01c454a9$d5c32a00$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> Message-Id: <1DC17B53-C0A2-11D8-9250-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: Dan Langille Subject: Re: HEADS UP - master/slave ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:07:42 -0000 Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >> These appear to be slightly faster than the previous stats I posted. >> Everything is pratically identical in user time. sys is where the >> savings are being made. > > it's strange that this code (w/ no fork) is not much faster than 2 > forks ! The benchmark is not really valid. Depending on your machine, nearly everything will be in the cache. This is not true when you have other stuff in the loop, like building the INDEX. -Oliver