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JackSlateuryesterday at 9:10 PM1 replyview on HN

"Shared address space, no overhead"

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


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frollogastonyesterday at 10:52 PM

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.