performer process run as a separate application

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AnitaKishore (kishore++at++electrogig.com)
Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:00:43 -0700

Hi everyone:

        Does anyone know if running performer process as a separate application
(through the C function call "system" or "exec") from within a main program
decreases its performance, as against running it in the same main application
by forking it as another process.

        My DRAW process timing increases from ~2.0 to ~5.0 for the same .iv
file, same IPC mechanism (except the size of the shared data increases little
bit). CULL and APP process timings remain unchanged.

        Is this expected or there is a way to further optimize?
        I would think that since the performer loop starts after all processes
are forked or execed, it shouldn't effect its performance.

thanks for any help.
-anita

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