Bernhard Voelker <m...@bernhard-voelker.de> writes: >> real 0m5.354s >> user 0m1.145s >> sys 0m1.539s > > Well, half a second for 1111 times creating and running /usr/bin/test > doesn't seem too much. At least, I can second your timing results.
In a sense, the question is "Do you think that creating, running, and destroying a process in 5 milliseconds is too slow?" Dale