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Subject: Re: thread vs fork?
From: Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> The OP explicitly said, "in java [sic]". That clears up that question completely.
> 
> Not necessarily. If he meant the Java framework, I would have expected 
> him to refer to it as "fork-join" instead of as just plain "fork". 
> People do ask questions in this newsgroup all the time without naming 
> things reliably. :-)

You raise a good point.

I suppose I put too much faith in the wording.

-- 
Lew