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		_pmf_ on Jan 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Websocketd > Forking a process on Linux uses the same clone() syscall as creating a thread The conclusion to be drawn is "Linux threads are costly", not "Linux processes are cheap".

inferiorhuman on Jan 26, 2019 [–]

Is it? I seem to remember that spawning a process on Linux was about as fast as a new thread on Windows XP.

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