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remram
3y ago
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Maybe for reading the input, splitting it, and assembling the possibly-very-long argument lists passed to the processes.
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chubot
3y ago
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Those things are all very fast compared to starting a process
remram
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3y ago
Command lines can be very long, so you can potentially read a million lines between executing processes.
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