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The goal here is to avoid potentially expensive fork()ing. The time for a fork() is (for a process with no real heap usage and thus few areas) 300-400us on my system. load_image() takes 3000us (3ms) or so, but this of course includes exec() time. Overall, for compiling HaikuDepot (with a tweaked jam to use posix_spawn on Haiku, not just on Linux) there is a slight decrease in time: before: real 1m21.727s user 1m2.131s sys 0m43.029s after: real 1m19.472s user 1m1.752s sys 0m41.740s Which is probably within the realm of "noise", so more benchmarks are needed. Likely if we tweak our jam usage to not need as many shells when running commands, this would be a much more noticeable change. Change-Id: I217f2476b1ed9aa18322b3c2bc8986571d89549a
Haiku
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Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
Goals
- Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required.
- Clean, clear, concise code.
- Unified desktop environment.
Trying Haiku
Haiku provides pre-built nightly images and release images. Haiku is compatible with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of the "Emulating Haiku" guides.
Compiling Haiku
See ReadMe.Compiling.
Contributing
Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even if you can't write code, you can still help! Haiku needs designers, (technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out!
Contributing code
If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the patch submitting guidelines.
If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use one of our web-based source code browsers:
- https://xref.landonf.org/ (OpenGrok, provided by Landon Fuller)
- https://git.haiku-os.org/ (git, provided by Haiku, Inc.)
Contributing documentation
The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found
in the tree at docs/user). Just find an undocumented class, write
documentation for it, and submit a patch.
Contributing translations
See wiki:i18n.
Contributing software ports
See HaikuPorts.
Contributing to our infrastructure
See Infrastructure.