Today David R. MacIver pinged me in #scala and asked “headius: Presumably you guys have spent quite a lot of time trying to make things like system(“vim”) work correctly in JRuby and failing? i.e. I’m ...

The traditional mechanism for launching a program in a new process on Unix systems—forking and execing—has been with us for decades, but it is not really the most efficient of operations. Various ...

Chen's patch set takes an interesting approach to optimize the fork() and exec() pattern. It is focused on applications that repeatedly launch processes running the same executable; imagine, for ...