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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:53:34 -0800
"Trevor Talbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/28/07, Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 07:29 -0700, Scott Ribe wrote:
> > > > Yes, very much so. Windows lacks the fork() concept, which is
> > > > what makes PostgreSQL much slower there.
> I mean, I can understand NT having bottlenecks in various areas
> compared to Unix, but this "threads are specially optimized" thing is
> seeming a bit overblown. Just how often do you see threads from a
> single process get contiguous access to the CPU?
I thought it was more about the cost to fork() a process in win32?
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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