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by charleshn 391 days ago
> Fork on Linux should use copy-on-write vmpages now, so if you fork inside python it should be cheap.

No, that's exactly the point I'm making, copying PTEs is not cheap on a large address space, woth many VMAs.

You can run a simple python script allocating a large list and see how it affects fork time.

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