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Comment by JackSlateur

1 day ago

"Shared address space, no overhead"

But concurrent access, so synchronization is required (lock or whatever), so overhead :)

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frollogaston  1 day ago

Yeah that's true, and I'd say threads need synchronization for concurrent access too, but supposedly the options for doing that are faster than what you need to use across processes.

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