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Re: To Fork or Not to Fork. Tis a question for PerlMonksby Preceptor (Deacon) |
| on Jul 01, 2014 at 10:12 UTC ( [id://1091823]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Depends what the forked code does. CPUs and memory as a rule are way faster than disk IO. If there's a lot of processing to be done, forking (or threading) means grabbing more processors. If you're IO bound, then it probably won't help much - any gains are offset against contention.
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