Subj : Re: help with basic multithreading in C on solaris To : comp.programming.threads From : Winbatch Date : Sat Feb 26 2005 05:06 pm > 'Immediately'... are you sure ? I mean, files get written to > 'immediately' too... perhaps writing to a file takes 0.001ms, while > initializing a thread takes 0.0015ms ... > Immediately. If you look at the code, I'm writing 10 million lines to the file for each file, so it takes a while. The thread creation happens immediately when I start the program, while the writing to each file takes ~20 seconds. I will look into boost. Thanks. .