That's a nice overview (++). There are a couple of statements presented as facts which on inspection seem not to be.

However, usually result data is small compared to input data

I would certainly agree with "sometimes", but "usually" without any citation seems just to be an opinion. Perhaps the problem space in which you most work has such a feature but it would be surprising to find it to be universally (or even broadly) true.

Linux users prefer ithreads to be disabled for the speed boost.

Linux users who care about the speed boost at the expense of flexibility prefer ithreads to be disabled for the speed boost. The rest of us don't.

I'm a Linux user and am quite happy to use threads. The interface is pretty slick and for some scenarios, threads are a perfect fit. In others, forked processes are more appropriate and in those scenarios I'm happy enough to use fork instead. Horses for courses.

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In reply to Re^5: Parallel processing on Windows by hippo
in thread Parallel processing on Windows by BernieC

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