Package: wnpp Owner: Youhei SASAKI <uwab...@gfd-dennou.org> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : ruby-posix-spawn Version : 0.3.6 Upstream Author : Ryan Tomayko, Aman Gupta * URL or Web page : http://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn * License : LGPL-2.1+, Expat Description : Ruby Implementation of posix_spawn(2) for faster process spawning The posix-spawn library aims to implement a subset of the Ruby 1.9 `Process::spawn` interface in a way that takes advantage of fast process spawning interfaces when available and provides sane fallbacks on systems that do not. . `fork(2)` calls slow down as the parent process uses more memory due to the need to copy page tables. In many common uses of fork(), where it is followed by one of the exec family of functions to spawn child processes (`Kernel#system`,`IO::popen`, `Process::spawn`, etc.), it's possible to remove this overhead by using the use of special process spawning interfaces (`posix_spawn()`, `vfork()`, etc.) --- Youhei SASAKI <uwab...@gfd-dennou.org> <uwab...@debian.or.jp> GPG fingerprint: 4096/RSA: 66A4 EA70 4FE2 4055 8D6A C2E6 9394 F354 891D 7E07 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bolud7d6.wl%uwab...@gfd-dennou.org
