Re: [PATCH] libtool: minimise forks per invocation on cygwin and mingw.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Any additional forks will slow down the script and should be avoided on all 
> platforms.

I definitely agree with that.  Besides the Windows problem, it does 
not seem like fork performance improves linearly from adding processor 
cores so it is important to minimize forks so that parallel compiles 
don't hit an bottleneck.

> Simply removing $(SHELL) from the LIBTOOL variable should fix the bug that 
> this is attempting to fix, without slowing down libtool.

Will this approach work ok if the Cygwin/MinGW user is using something 
like zsh or dash rather than bash?

Bob
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