Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 00:09, Mike McCarty wrote:
And I'm certainly interested to see whether he can suggest a way to run 100 copies of a console app under WinXP. I intend to give that a try to see what happens, if anyone can suggest a simple way to do it.
If I did it in a working scenario I'd install the Cygwin tools and run the same bash script that I'd use on Linux. I'm not sure how this would work as a benchmark though. There may be more efficient ways to spawn processes in windows than the cygwin emulation of fork.
I was actually intending to investigate the context switching aspects of XP vs Linux. Installing Cygwin seems a little bit high overhead (in disc space, etc.) to me. I may have still installed a MinGW on my XP partition. That might be a way...
Good idea.
Mike