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bluepuma77 17 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving beyond fork() + exec()

> It was needed back in the era of really expensive memory.

Well, it seems we are back in an era with really expensive memory.

simongr3dal 16 days ago [–]

That’s funny, but most new cpus today have more L3 cache than those computers had memory and disk space combined.

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