Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> Mark Wilkinson writes:
> > As regards the posix shell. My only real bugbear is that it is soooo slow. I'm
> > sure that over time, this will improve, and that the functionality will be
> > enhanced.
>
...
> The remaining slowness is just due to fork(), and there's nothing you can do
> about that, other than whining and hoping that HP is listening.  ;-)
> --

Well, you can design your application to minimize the needed forks and
keep processes alive as much as possible.
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