[Vm-dev] A fork in the road()

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri Dec 13 23:34:16 UTC 2019



> On 2019-11-29, at 5:28 AM, Ben Coman <btc at openInWorld.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Sharing an interesting paper I bumped into..
> > A fork() in the road
> > https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/04/fork-hotos19.pdf  

That's pretty interesting stuff. I never did understand the attraction of cloning an entire running process only to dump nearly all of it immediately. On the other hand, doing pretty much that (except we don't dump stuff) with an image seems to work really well...

tim
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