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In what way inefficient?

Your OS will timeslice those processes much more efficiently than any cooperative timesharing scheme; and most of the executable code will be shared between the processes by the OS also. By forcing what are essentially separate linear tasks to share a single process space, and using a user-level timesharing scheme with all of it's inherent overheads, you are preventing the OS from doing it's job efficiently.

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