On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 00:00:13 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Monday, 20 May 2013 at 22:52:33 UTC, Diggory wrote:
And that would work on all modern OSes, plus you don't have
the overhead of creating a new process or even a new thread.
Also immutable memory doesn't need to be mapped, the GC thread
can access it directly.
Copy on WRITE usually don't happen on immutable memory.
I never said it did... I said that when using fork the immutable
memory must be mapped into the new process, when using a thread
it does not since threads share the same address space.
