Am 05.06.2014 15:39, schrieb Johannes Schindelin: > And in particular with your changes to Unicodify the complete environment, > I am *highly* doubtful that child processes will be able to handle > themselves properly, unless we spend a whole lot of time converting back > and forth the environment when calling children. The unicode version _does_ convert back and forth, in mingw_startup and make_environment_block, respectively. However, as the unicode environment is sorted, this is actually much faster than the original version. To put things in perspective *: entire mingw_startup: ~450 µs * _wgetmainargs: 25 µs * allocate+convert args and environment: 25 µs * qsort environment: 15 µs * winansi_init: 393 µs entire mingw_spawnve_fd: ~1250 µs * make_environment_block: 25 µs * CreateProcessW: 690 µs Now, the unicode mingw_getenv is O(log n) (~0.15 µs per call) and MSVCRT's getenv is O(n) (~3.6 µs per call). A git command that just launches a script (e.g. git gui) calls getenv ~25 times. (3.6 µs - 0.15 µs) * 25 = 86 µs, i.e. this compensates the additional startup time (including qsort) more than twice. (*) Measurements done via QueryPerformanceCounter, with 75 environment entries, on a Core i7 960, Windows 7 x64 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html