On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 05:12:19PM +0000, Magnus Holmgren wrote: >Magnus Holmgren <magnushol <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> I did some testing on my 64-bit Vista system, and it appears that >> CreateThread is the main cause. > >I think I've found the reason for the slow CreateThread. It seems like >the following remark in the MSDN documentation is relevant, at least for >WOW64 processes: > > * During process startup and DLL initialization routines, new threads can > be created, but they do not begin execution until DLL initialization is > done for the process.
Which was precisely why sigproc_init was called there to begin with. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple