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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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