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> why fork() is still used in Chromium To support a multi-process web browser architecture that Chromium pioneered, you need to spawn processes. See https://ch
by xyzzyz 8y ago
> why fork() is still used in Chromium
To support a multi-process web browser architecture that Chromium pioneered, you need to spawn processes. See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/linux_zygote.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/l...
- Dylan16807 8y agoThat's not what the page says. It says the use of fork() saves 8MB and a few tens of milliseconds per process spawn.