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Re:I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks by zozbot234 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:18PM (#28268571)
Forking a new process for every incoming web request might just make a lot of sense on ~2020 era, Spectre- and Meltdown-prone hardware. And so the Wheel of Samsara turns.
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Re:I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks by samus on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:09AM (#28272508)
The threat posed by Spectre and Meltdown cannot be mitigated by just switching to a multiprocessing architecture. The threat is exactly about bypassing that abstraction too.
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