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Re: Re: Code and Process Efficency

by BUU (Prior)
on Dec 29, 2003 at 20:50 UTC ( [id://317544]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Code and Process Efficency
in thread Code and Process Efficency

Unless your system has multiple CPU's, forking is not going to speed up processing of your programs, but rather make them slower because of memory usage and task switching overheads.
Assuming each process is cpu limited.

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