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I'm curious if anyone has any insights into the answer to the titular question. The article, while certainly interesting, mostly discusses workarounds, but does

• maxmcd 2y ago
  Yes, apologies for the less than satisfying conclusion. I am planning a part 2 of this post where I hope to actually answer the question. In the meantime the discussion on lobste.rs includes some lower-level speculation: https://lobste.rs/s/tr8ozm/why_is_spawning_new_process_node_so_slow https://lobste.rs/s/tr8ozm/why_is_spawning_new_process_node_...