From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 3 Apr 92 15:57:45 GMT From: emery@mitre-bedford.arpa (David Emery) Subject: Re: Message-ID: List-Id: >Marci Khader says >In 'C' you could do a fork with the parent not waiting for the >child to finish. You can just as easily do this in Ada. But, you'll pay all of the substantial costs for _process_ context switching in Unix (or VMS). This cost tends to be prohibitive for many applications! dave