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Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow?
At Val Town we spawn a lot of processes. We're working on making it faster
The simplest thing we can do spawn more processes and run an http server per-process using Node’s cluster module. I’d ideally find a way to keep the single thread execution model of javascript and still make spawns fast. I’m familiar with Unix Domain Sockets where you have a file called (eg) something.sock and you can listen on it and connect to it just like a network address.
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