threading

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 23:56:35 EDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> There is (or at least, was) another reason.  Creating a new process used
> to be far more expensive than creating a new thread.  In modern  Unix
> kernels, however, the cost difference has become much less, so this is
> no longer a major issue.

Unix maybe, but what about Windows? Is it efficient to create
processes under Windows?

ChrisA



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