Why is creating a new process more expensive on Windows than Linux?

Question

I\'ve heard that creating a new process on a Windows box is more expensive than on Linux. Is this true? Can somebody explain the technical reasons for why it\'s more expen

Answer 1

It's also worth noting that the security model in Windows is vastly more complicated than in unix-based OSs, which adds a lot of overhead during process creation. Yet another reason why multithreading is preferred to multiprocessing in Windows.