paulmcl

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   The email that changed the world 30 years ago today(community.cadence.com)

   1 points by paulmcl 5y ago|1 comments
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   by paulmcl 17y ago

   Don't forget that fork predates not just threads but virtual memory so cloning all of the volatile memory of a process was really cheap (because there was only a few K of it). Look at the source code for fork in Lyons book on the version 6