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nptl (read, any modern kernel) Linux processes are cheap, they share an implementation with threads in fact. Note that this only means they can be quite cheap,
by andrewvc 15y ago
nptl (read, any modern kernel) Linux processes are cheap, they share an implementation with threads in fact. Note that this only means they can be quite cheap, if you dirty a large amount of memory you lose CoW of course.
- masklinn 15y ago> nptl (read, any modern kernel) Linux processes are cheap They're not 300-bytes cheap. They're not you-can-have-a-million-of-them-on-a-desktop-box cheap. Erlang's processes are.