Re: [ILUG-BOM] Copy on write [was: Microsoft's innovation]

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

Philip S Tellis wrote:

> The idea is that most parts of shared data may (implicitly) be read only,
> so there really is no reason why both processes shouldn't use the same
> copy.  Saves memory as well as time lost while making copies.
> 
> Just thought that this would be of interest to you'll

I was aware of the code base of identical processes not being duplicated
unnecessarily, but memory too? This is good.

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