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Ever notice how much slower building software using configure is on MacOS than Linux? The results here point out why: Fork + exec is ~10x slower on MacOS. H
by drewg123 9y ago
Ever notice how much slower building software using configure is on MacOS than Linux? The results here point out why: Fork + exec is ~10x slower on MacOS.
However, this isn't exactly new information. The general slowness of the OSX kernel has been known for years, via other benchmarks like lmbench. Its one of the reasons they were the first to implement a vdso-like interface for things like gettimeofday().