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authoreldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems>2024-03-18 12:38:49 +0100
committereldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems>2024-03-18 06:10:41 -0600
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libutil: remove vfork
vfork confers a large performance advantage over fork, measured locally at 16µs per vfork agains 90µs per fork. however nix *almost always* follows a vfork up with an execve-family call, melting the performance advantage from 6x to only 15%. in most of those cases it's doing things that are undefined behavior (like manipulating the heap, or even throwing exceptions and trashing the parent process stack). most notably the one place that could benefit from the vfork performance improvement is linux derivation sandbox setup—which doesn't use vfork. Change-Id: I2037b7384d5a4ca24da219a569e1b1f39531410e
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