On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@gmail.com> wrote:

In general, threads and Perl and efficiency are a pick-at-most-two proposition.  Most people are content with forking.  But I would love to hear details of counter-examples.



There is an opinion that threads and processes are almost the same from the performance point of view:
 
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/807506/threads-vs-processes-in-linux