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OS: How can make sure process creation is more expensive that thread creation ?

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OS: How can make sure process creation is more expensive that thread creation ?
posted Jun 23, 2014 by Rupam

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AFAIK process creation is always more expensive then thread creation (except in Java though not sure)

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Can someone please explain using any example ?

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