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> Historically spawning processes was vastly slower on Windows Indeed. > I’m not certain of the current state though I think it improved a few years ago It d
by dataflow 3y ago
> Historically spawning processes was vastly slower on Windows
Indeed.
> I’m not certain of the current state though I think it improved a few years ago
It did? I feel like it gets slower and slower every time.
> I believe it’s still considerably more than one millisecond; 10–20ms is the vague number that’s lodged in my memory, but not supported, and I can’t test it now. (I invite anyone running Windows to provide figures.)
Yep. On the Windows 10 machine I have it's around 4ms, though that's antivirus and other similar sources of slowness disabled. You could probably get it closer to 2-3ms on a faster machine, but that's the ballpark.