Didn't he just say that fork turns out to be comparatively faster to the non-fork samples we get? Ie Linux spawns processes faster than Microsoft's kernels?

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mort96 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Didn't I just say that "the problem with fork isn't really that it's slow"? It's all the other OS design choices it forces on you if you want it to be fast.

	▲	theK 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Right, you did. I somehow misread your comment.

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nvme0n1p1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

We don't have any broadly used non-fork samples. Windows, macOS, and Linux all have fork. So the presence of fork can't be the reason for the performance difference.

(Windows's fork is called ZwCreateProcess)

	▲	dcrazy 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		NtCreateProcess does not implement a forking model. It is analogous to posix_spawn.