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		andai on Aug 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adding 16 kb page size to Android I'm glad you mentioned that. I noticed when running "Hello world" C program on Windows 10 that Windows performs over 100 reads of the Registry before running the program. Same thing when I right click a file... A few of those are 3rd party, but most are not.

nullindividual on Aug 23, 2024 [–]

Remember that Win32 process creation is expensive[0]. And on NT, processes don't run, threads do.

The strategy of applications, like olde-tymey Apache using multiple processes to handle incoming connections is fine on UN*X, but terrible on Windows.

[0] https://fourcore.io/blogs/how-a-windows-process-is-created-p...

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