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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by AstralStorm on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:55AM (#12441530)
Only on Linux, POSIX does not mandate CoW and Windows does not have a similar API.
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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by lloeki on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @07:06AM (#12442269)
While not mandatory, I always sort of assumed BSD and Darwin do the same...

Just wanted to point out that memory usage isn't necessarily inherent to multiprocess, but with a sizable portion of users on Windows the point is practically moot anyway.

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