threading

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Apr 8 14:09:57 EDT 2014


On 04/06/2014 08:56 PM, Chris Angelico 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?

Not a concern until performance is not good enough.

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~Ethan~




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