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On 11/16/2011 12:52 PM, Jack Keegan wrote:
Ok, I thought that processes would do the same job as threads. So would the general rule be some thing like so: If I want another piece of work to run (theoretically) along side my main script, and I want to share data between them, I should use a thread and share data with the thread-safe queue. If the work I want done can function and complete on its own, go for a process. Would that be about right?
Yes, with all the caveats I mentioned before. With some language implementations, and with some operating systems, and on some CPU-systems, the guidelines could be different. They all trade off in ways too complex to describe here.
For example, if a thread is mostly doing I/O, it may be just as efficient as a separate process, even if sharing data isn't an issue.
And in some languages, sharing data between processes isn't all that tough, either.
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