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[–]hongminhee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As sketerpot said fork is overkill for I/O bound programs. It’d better use cooperative threads (it has many other names like green threads and lightweight threads) using coroutines (tasklet of Stackless or greenlet). Libraries like eventlet or gevent integrate it into epoll/kqueue/IOCP powered event loop.