Feb. 10, 2012
3:58 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know much about forking, but I'm pretty sure that forking a process doesn't mean you double the amount of physical memory used. With copy-on-write, a lot of physical memory can be shared.
Unfortunately, CPython's use of refcounting plays merry hell with the effectiveness of copy-on-write memory saving techniques. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia