Vote for std.process

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 07:53:04 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 12 April 2013 17:30, Vladimir Panteleev 
> <vladimir at thecybershadow.net>wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 12 April 2013 at 07:22:42 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that spawning processes is a low-frequency operation, 
>>> but it's a
>>> principle I'm trying to illustrate here.
>>>
>>
>> My point was that it is not that it's low-frequency, it's that 
>> the OS
>> process creation operation is so expensive, that a few memory 
>> allocations
>> will not make much of a difference in comparison. It's the 
>> same as
>> optimizing memory allocations in a program which is 
>> intrinsically disk- or
>> network-bound.
>
>
> Which OS are we talking about?
> What OS runs on an a Nintendo Wii? There's only 24mb of system 
> memory in
> that machine, can we afford to allocate it frivolously?
>
> Will I avoid phobos as a policy? Yes.
>
>

Do you create process at all?

I always had the impression those environments used real time OS 
like libraries and multitasking is achieved by co-routines or 
threads, not real processes.

Just a dummy comment from an industry outsider.

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Paulo