On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 07:53:04 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 12 April 2013 17:30, Vladimir Panteleev
<vladi...@thecybershadow.net>wrote:
On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 07:22:42 UTC, Manu wrote:
I agree that spawning processes is a low-frequency operation,
but it's a
principle I'm trying to illustrate here.
My point was that it is not that it's low-frequency, it's that
the OS
process creation operation is so expensive, that a few memory
allocations
will not make much of a difference in comparison. It's the
same as
optimizing memory allocations in a program which is
intrinsically disk- or
network-bound.
Which OS are we talking about?
What OS runs on an a Nintendo Wii? There's only 24mb of system
memory in
that machine, can we afford to allocate it frivolously?
Will I avoid phobos as a policy? Yes.
Do you create process at all?
I always had the impression those environments used real time OS
like libraries and multitasking is achieved by co-routines or
threads, not real processes.
Just a dummy comment from an industry outsider.
--
Paulo
