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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by pezezin on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:26AM (#46510309)
In any modern OS with CoW forking/paging, multiple worker processes of the same app will share code segments by default.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by rollcat on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:21AM (#46511028)
COW on fork has been a given for decades.

You can't COW two different libraries, even if the libraries in question share the source code text.

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