threading

Sturla Molden sturla.molden at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 15:41:40 EDT 2014


On 07/04/14 05:56, 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?


Processes are very heavy-weight on Windows.

Sturla






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