On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:31:06 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Windows actually has superior native parallel execution APIs to Linux in some respects, but open source programming languages tend not to support them, presumably due to a combination of Microsoft's longstanding hostile perspective on open source licencing (which seems to finally be moderating with their new CEO), and the even longer standing POSIX mindset that "fork and file descriptors ought to be enough for anyone" (even if the workload in the child processes is wildly different from that in the main process).
Or perhaps the fact that those superiors APIs are a PITA. select() and friends may be crude performance-wise (though, strangely, we don't see providers migrating massively to Windows in order to improve I/O throughput), but they are simple to use. Regards Antoine.