Re: Remote fork() and Parallel programming

Jeffrey B. Siegal (jbs@quiotix.com)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:04:33 -0700


>Which is going to cost more: programmer time that you pay for once, or
>the total amount of resources that are going to be wasted over the
>lifetime of the operating system (and applications that are based on the
>OS, [recurse])?

To a greater and greater extent, for more and more (though certainly not all)
applications, programmer time. For any application where the comparison was
close a few years ago, it is no longer close, and similarly any application
which is a close call now won't be in a few years.

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