Re: Work woth GUI from a thread that was made by pthread_create function

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> > I don't believe that process switches are significantly slower than
> > thread switches, but if it really is a bottleneck important enough
>
> In a single processor environment thread-switches could even be mutch
> slower than process switches.

Would you care to explain? This is not true, AFAICT. [Thread switch
means not flushing TLBs, otherwise its same as process switch. Its
strictly more work. Its not *significant*, however.]
                                                                        Pavel
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