begin Minh Van Le quotation:
> Is multithreading more efficient than forks ?
Views differ wildly.
> Or [is there] no difference under Linux ?
There's a difference. But one widely held view amoung Linux developers,
especially on the Linux kernel mailing list, is that regular processes
in Linux are sufficiently lightweight (compared to in, say, Solaris)
that threading is close to pointless.
There are multiple threading models on Linux (and, indeed, various
*ixes). Here's a starting point for your reading:
http://linas.org/linux/threads-faq.html
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