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> I believe but cannot cite that fork() got a lot cheaper over the last 30 years as well ... The fork[0] system call has been a relatively quick operation for
by AdieuToLogic 1y ago
> I believe but cannot cite that fork() got a lot cheaper over the last 30 years as well ...
The fork[0] system call has been a relatively quick operation for the entirety of its existence. Where latency is introduced is in the canonical use of the execve[1] equivalent in newly created child process.
> ... cgi bin works really well if you don’t have to pay for ssl or tcp connections to databases or other services, but you can maybe run something like istio if you need that.
Istio[2] is specific to Kubernetes and thus unrelated to CGI.
0 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fork&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fork&apropos=0&sek...
1 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=execve&sektion=2&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE+and+Ports https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=execve&sektion=2&a...
2 - https://istio.io/ https://istio.io/