<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>How about 1 parent doing 100 * 5000 spawns versus 100 parents doing 5000 spawns each? At least then you are measuring the same number of process spawns.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> junli gu <gujunli@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> erlang-questions@erlang.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 21 May, 2009 11:36:38 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [erlang-questions] about spawning time<br></font><br><div>hi,everyone!</div>
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<div>I've writen two spawning programs:</div>
<div> a): is just spawning 5000 process, the time eclapsed is 1.72us,<br clear="all"> b): 100process each spawning 5000 new process, the average time needed is 1.52us,less than a).</div>
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<div>I don't understand why.I believe b) will consume mch more time than a).<br><br><br></div>
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