I am writing some code that was spawning a lot of processes with spawnProcess, and it was going a bit slower than I expected; it was taking about 51 seconds on my M1 Max mac.  So I hopped over to my local copy of Twisted and applied this patch:

1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
src/twisted/internet/process.py | 9 +++++++++

modified   src/twisted/internet/process.py
@@ -367,6 +367,15 @@ class _BaseProcess(BaseProcess):
         @type environment: L{dict}.
         @param kwargs: keyword arguments to L{_setupChild} method.
         """
+        from os import posix_spawn, POSIX_SPAWN_DUP2, POSIX_SPAWN_CLOSE
+        fdmap = kwargs.get("fdmap", {})
+        actions = [
+            (POSIX_SPAWN_DUP2, childFD, parentFD)
+            for (parentFD, childFD) in fdmap.items()
+        ]
+        self.pid = posix_spawn(executable, args, environment, file_actions=actions)
+        return
+
         collectorEnabled = gc.isenabled()
         gc.disable()
         try:

This is obviously not a complete reimplementation and might have some slight performance advantage due to its incompleteness, but the task in question then took 16 seconds; i.e. a 319% speedup.

Anyone want to do this implementation for real?  Or want to commit to a review, if I did it?

-g