On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:09, Mike McCarty wrote:
My original point stands. Windows is not a cycle hog.
It has much more overhead when switching among several
processes.
Also, my
second point stands. As far as "until you try to do something",
Word starts much faster on my machine than does Open Office.
Windows pre-loads much of the MS office library code. Compare
Open Office/windows, Open Office/Linux. Linux will still lose
because X has more overhead but you'll be closer to reality
and in return for the X overhead you get the ability to
run any X app remotely.
So do many other apps, like my web browsers. I think this
qualifies as "creating a new process".
No, it has next to nothing to do with process creation.
'cat' would be closer.
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