On Windows, forks and threads have similar start-up overheads and memory requirements since they are implimented with the same underlying mechanism.
However, Unix has a real fork(). So how does forking a process compare in start-up time and memory requirements as compared to creating a new thread? Merrill _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
