alt Hacker NewsDidn't he just say that fork turns out to be comparatively faster to the non-fork samples we get? Ie Linux spawns processes faster than Microsoft's kernels?
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nvme0n1p1 • today at 5:22 PM
We don't have any broadly used non-fork samples. Windows, macOS, and Linux all have fork. So the presence of fork can't be the reason for the performance difference.
(Windows's fork is called ZwCreateProcess)
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Didn't I just say that "the problem with fork isn't really that it's slow"? It's all the other OS design choices it forces on you if you want it to be fast.