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It is surely faster than windows. But I don't think the TLB stays intact: You have to redo all page tables etc.., as every memory write will cause a copy on-write (if one process writes to memory, it gets a copy of the memory and the other process never sees the write)



Copy on write is for fork. Threads share memory, so you specifically don't want to CoW.


Correct, of course. I somehow read 'forked process' where he said 'thread'. Sorry.




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