Richard Oudkerk added the comment: Numbers when running on Linux on a laptop with 2 cores + hyperthreading.
RUNNING UNITTESTS: fork: real 0m50.687s user 0m9.213s sys 0m4.012s fork+exec: real 1m9.062s user 0m48.579s sys 0m6.648s forkserver: real 0m50.702s user 0m4.140s # excluding descendants sys 0m0.708s # excluding descendants LATENCY: fork: 0.0071 secs/proc fork+exec: 0.0622 secs/proc forkserver: 0.0035 secs/proc Still 4 times the cpu time and 10 times the latency. But the latency is far lower than in the VM. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8713> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com