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Re: Fastest way to run two external processes

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* Mark Summerfield <m.n.summerfield@gmail.com>
| I created a tiny test program (65 LOC; shown at the end) to
| compare timings. I did multiple timings and here're the averages:
>
| serial        (2 LOC) 2.020 sec
| multiprocess (19 LOC) 1.055 sec
| threaded     (13 LOC) 1.061 sec
>
| Since the difference between the multiprocess and threaded
| approaches is so small and that the threaded code is simpler
| and more appealing, I'm going to use the threaded version in
| my programs (which only ever work with two PDFs at a time)
| — so thank you "abu"!

I wonder: you stated in your initial message

    Message-ID: <10sschf$3nvs2$1@dont-email.me>
    In my experiments with Tcl's threading I've found the threading
    startup overhead to be rather large.

Can you tell what is/was the difference to the current solution which
obviously has no "startup overhead"?

R'

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Fastest way to run two external processes Mark Summerfield <m.n.summerfield@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 07:38 +0000
  Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Mark Summerfield <m.n.summerfield@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 08:51 +0000
    Re: Fastest way to run two external processes meshparts <alexandru.dadalau@meshparts.de> - 2026-04-29 11:24 +0200
      Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Mark Summerfield <m.n.summerfield@gmail.com> - 2026-04-29 09:46 +0000
    Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2026-04-29 12:30 +0200
      Re: Fastest way to run two external processes abu <user13892@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-04-30 00:51 +0000
        Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2026-04-30 14:23 +0200
        Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Mark Summerfield <m.n.summerfield@gmail.com> - 2026-05-01 07:04 +0000
          Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2026-05-01 22:54 +0200
            Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Mark Summerfield <m.n.summerfield@gmail.com> - 2026-05-02 06:57 +0000
              Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Ashok <apnmbx-public@yahoo.com> - 2026-05-09 16:03 +0530
                Re: Fastest way to run two external processes Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2026-05-11 11:08 +0200
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