[xyzzyz]

> why fork() is still used in Chromium

To support a multi-process web browser architecture that Chromium pioneered, you need to spawn processes. See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/l...

[Dylan16807]

That's not what the page says. It says the use of fork() saves 8MB and a few tens of milliseconds per process spawn.