Comment by xyzzyz
7 years ago
> 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...
7 years ago
> 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...
That's not what the page says. It says the use of fork() saves 8MB and a few tens of milliseconds per process spawn.