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Re:Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense by justincormack on Monday January 18, 2016 @01:58PM (#10926123)
Use posix_spawn not fork and exec, then at least the OS may not allocate twice the memory, eg the BSDs will not.
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Re:Once upon a time, memory allocators made sense by joosters on Monday January 18, 2016 @02:36PM (#10926369)
Good luck getting any existing 3rd-party code to use posix_spawn ...
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