threading

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Mon Apr 7 08:26:01 EDT 2014


In article <mailman.8970.1396843004.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

Whether something works well on Windows is really not something I worry 
about a lot.



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