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 The main reason I see for using fork() is that you don't need to serialize (pickly) the data shared between forked processes.  This is especially useful for sharing lambdas and other closures, which cannot be serialized or imported. The main reason I see for using fork() is that you don't need to serialize (pickly) the data shared between forked processes.  This is especially useful for sharing lambdas and other closures, which cannot be serialized or imported.
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 +===== Process Wide =====
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 +Here are some things that are shared across the process:
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 +  - Environment variables
 +  - Argv
 +  - Signal Handlers
 +  - FDs
 +  - Linked Libraries
 +  - Statically initialized storage
 +  - Page Table
 +    - TLB?
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