Hancock, David (DHANCOCK) wrote:
Ian: Thanks for the response.  Our OS is Linux, so our threads are really
processes.  One thing I've never really understood is whether the
thread-like processes on Linux offer any kind of advantage over normal
processes.
Well, you only get one copy of the program and shared variables, so you
save memory... The 2.5 kernel had got proper threads (see recent articles on kerneltrap).

Nick



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