On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:54 PM, zsxxsz <zsx...@263.net> wrote: > == Quote from Adam Ruppe (destructiona...@gmail.com)'s article >> zsxxsz wrote: >> > The fork process is expensive for any OS. >> Have you actually measured this? > Yes, I'm sure. Fork on UNIX or CreateProcess on Win32 are expensive.
Interestingly enough, this benchmark conducted ~10 years ago on a Pentium 3 found that Fork took less than a millisecond on Linux 2.6: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
