>>>>> sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> (s) wrote:

>s> On 24 Aug, 13:21, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>>> But os.fork() is not available on Windows. And I guess refcounts et al.
>>> will soon destroy the sharing.

>s> Well, there is os.fork in Cygwin and SUA (SUA is the Unix subsytem in
>s> Windows Vista Professional). Cygwin's fork is a bit sluggish.

That's because it doesn't use copy-on-write. Thereby losing most of its
advantages. I don't know SUA, but I have vaguely heard about it.
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