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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:56:35 +1000
Subject: Re: threading
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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Roy Smith <roy@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