Make fork() go 30% faster

This change makes fork() go nearly as fast as sys_fork() on UNIX. As for
Windows this change shaves about 4-5ms off fork() + wait() latency. This
is accomplished by using WriteProcessMemory() from the parent process to
setup the address space of a suspended process; it is better than a pipe
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Justine Tunney 2025-01-01 04:59:38 -08:00
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@ -238,7 +238,8 @@ static bool free_waiters_populate (void) {
// netbsd semaphores are file descriptors
n = 1;
} else {
n = __pagesize / sizeof(waiter);
// don't create too much fork() overhead
n = 16;
}
waiter *waiters = mmap (0, n * sizeof(waiter),
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,