"parallelizing" the two initial phases?

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:27:55AM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

> > Later, there are two separate threads anyways.
> 
> They are separate processes that don't share memory, and sharing memory
> would be required to compare the two files lists after they were
> generated.

OK, but let me play younger than I am:
Why can't those processes share memory all the times?

Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)