> Isn't starting a process a very slow operation in Win32? yes and no yes, it's slower than just calling a sub part of an existing process (eg calling a routine in a loaded DLL) but a well written app is not too slow to launch. (unlike many large GUI programs like MS Word)
> Since it's not recommended to start threads or even to use too many thread in a high > performance program I stongly disagree. smart useage of threads _can_ improve the performance of a program (of course depends on the program) silly excess usage of threads can hurt performance. this is the same for all OSs it all comes down to how well the program is written/designed. there is certianley a lot of crap available for Win32, which gives the OSs a bad rep, even though on WinNT/2K/XP one can write very well perfoming apps. (I will avoid discuss the crap Win9x/Me faimily), and yes some operations are faster on Linux&Unix than Win32, and some are faster on Win32 than Linux&Unix. (Both are good OSs) sorry about the rant, I just hate to see blind bashing of any OS Louis Solomon www.SteelBytes.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
