Comment by int_19h
4 years ago
An implementation of fork() that doesn't do CoW would have borderline unusable perf in many real-world scenarios.
4 years ago
An implementation of fork() that doesn't do CoW would have borderline unusable perf in many real-world scenarios.
If the parent is a JVM, for sure. But a copy-on-write fork() still doesn't perform well. The point isn't to just copy the whole parent. The point is to stop copying at all.