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Re: When to use forks, when to use threads ...?

by perrin (Chancellor)

on Sep 04, 2008 at 17:50 UTC ( [id://709078]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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It's a big question, so read up with Google and SuperSearch. The gist of it is that if you're on Windows you will usually prefer Perl threads to forking and on Unix it will be the opposite.

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Re^2: When to use forks, when to use threads ...? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 05, 2008 at 07:51 UTC
Right, because on windows forking is emulated using threads, because windows doesn't have fork...	[reply]
Re^3: When to use forks, when to use threads ...? by bibliophile (Prior) on Sep 08, 2008 at 14:35 UTC
I dunno... any time I've used that OS, I've thought "forking Windows...." -Bib	[reply]

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