posix-spawn fork(2) calls slow down as the parent process uses more memory due to the need to copy page tables. In many common uses of fork(), where it is followed by one of the exec family of functions to spawn child processes (Kernel#system, IO::popen, Process::spawn, etc.), it's possible to remove this overhead by using special process spawning interfaces (posix_spawn(), vfork(), etc.) The posi
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