Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Roy Smith <r...@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?
Another reason to avoid Microsoft's operating systems as a programming target, IMO. -- \ “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used | `\ when we created them.” —Albert Einstein | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
