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On 2024-02-19 10:24, Björn Lundin wrote:
> On 2024-02-18 21:56, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> So why is it that Windows programs tend to avoid running multiple 
>> processes?
> 
> Perhaps on win create_process is much heavier than threading compared to 
> unix. My suspicion only though.
> 
> MS SQL-server use it for IPC.

Firefox starts a process for each tab! The next stop is placing each one 
in a docker ... and, of course, HTTP for communication...

The Holly Grail of modern computing is to use each available bit and 
each CPU tick for doing exactly nothing! (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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