JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 7bb95bca20412c35007324b87b891ebc23551d9e
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By StefanKarpinski:

Some hard numbers for forking and execing the `true` program on my machine:

- shell: 7ms
- julia before this commit: 50-60ms
- julia after this commit: 20ms
- julia calling exec right after the fork: 16ms
- julia just calling exit right after the fork: 7ms