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Relatively rarely, but in some performance sensitive use cases. Mine happens to be fuzzers, where a very cheap fork-like primitive would be a really big win.
by debatem1 5mo ago
Relatively rarely, but in some performance sensitive use cases. Mine happens to be fuzzers, where a very cheap fork-like primitive would be a really big win.
- surajrmal 5mo agoAndroid and chrome both benefit greatly from fork exec as part of their zygote model iirc. It substantially reduces the memory cost and latency of spawning new apps and tabs.