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And so easy to make into bottleneck.

Yes, zygote pattern makes it easy to make fork() into bottleneck - it requires a lot more discipline and low level tricks (linker scripts, compiler-specific extensions, custom sections, low level dependencies on pagesize that get "fun" on ARM servers).

If you don't, you might wake up with fork() causing latency issues.



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