On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 00:09, Mike McCarty wrote: > And I'm certainly interested to see whether he can suggest a > way to run 100 copies of a console app under WinXP. I intend > to give that a try to see what happens, if anyone can suggest > a simple way to do it. If I did it in a working scenario I'd install the Cygwin tools and run the same bash script that I'd use on Linux. I'm not sure how this would work as a benchmark though. There may be more efficient ways to spawn processes in windows than the cygwin emulation of fork. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx