Thanks for the tip! What do you mean by forking?
It calls an external command (date), which is implemented as fork + exec. Both of these calls are very expensive and slow.
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Thanks for the tip! What do you mean by forking?
It calls an external command (date), which is implemented as fork + exec. Both of these calls are very expensive and slow.