Is it better to use threads or fork in the following case

[Diez B. Roggisch]

grocery_stocker schrieb:
> On May 3, 1:16 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>> grocery_stocker schrieb:
>>
>>> Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30
>>> minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this website
>>> every 30 minutes, download the file, extract the information, and then
>>> have the program search the file search for certain items.
>>> Would it be better to use threads to break this up? I have one thread
>>> download the data and then have another to actually process the data .
>>> Or would it be better to use fork?
>> Neither. Why do you think you need concurrency at all?
>>
> 
> Okay, here is what was going through my mind. I'm a 56k dialup modem.
> What happens it takes me 15 minutes to download the file? Now let's
> say during those 15 minutes, the program needs to parse the data in
> the existing file.

Is this an exercise in asking 20 hypothetical questions?

Getting concurrency right isn't trivial, so if you absolute don't need 
this, don't do it.

Diez