Originally, a fork was needed (through spawn_function()) because there was a memory leak inside tarfile python module. As of today, the issue doesn't seem to exist anymore and so, the cost of fork() should be avoided completely.
Originally, a fork was needed (through spawn_function()) because there was a memory leak inside tarfile python module. As of today, the issue doesn't seem to exist anymore and so, the cost of fork() should be avoided completely.