From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] rfork(), getss() etc etc 
In-Reply-To: Message from Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> 
   of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 06:52:57 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.10.10009020555201.9425-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> 
Date: Sat,  2 Sep 2000 22:51:22 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
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| 	You will not notice the effect simply benshmarking schedule(),
| but you will get big slowdown spread over the userland. It's not a pure
| theory - effect is quite visible.

Just out of curiosity, do any real linux programs use clone or pthreads
or whatever?  Say what you like about rfork, but lots of real programs
make good use of it.