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Re:Wangle – an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library by pcwalton on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @04:14PM (#11537380)
> Yes. In fact, under Linux oftentimes spawning a thread and then running a system call can be faster than just running a system call.

Interesting, do you have any further info (references, cites) on this?

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Re:Wangle – an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library by scott_s on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:04PM (#11537750)
Sign me up for wanting more info as well. I'm curious how that could work out, since spawning a thread is a system call.
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