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|	|	Curious exactly what happens when you run a program on your computer? Learn how multiprocessing works, what system calls really are, how computers manage memory with hardware interrupts, and how Linux loads executables.
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|	|	blog.codingconfessions.com What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive	2.9 parsecs away Travel
|	|	An explanation of how Linux handles system calls on x86-64 and why they show up as expensive operations in performance profiles
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|		And how to retain consistency when memory allocation failures occur?

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