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Re:What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optpa... by chlorion on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @10:21PM (#36966200)
I'm not a Linux kernel dev but I think this is true! Not sure what's up with the downvotes.

You can create a process/thread chimera with certain system calls, and get something that is in-between a thread and process if you want, which is neat but maybe not that useful.

Creating processes on Linux is actually much faster than people seem to realize. I can spawn at least a few thousand a second from a quick test of spawning bash instances.

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