Am 03.11.15 um 09:56 schrieb Alex Mestiashvili:

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

This is from April 2009 - more than 6.5 years old. It talks of Linux 2.4
vs. 2.6. We now have Linux 4.2; don't take this link too serious without
checking if it is still valid for recent kernels.