Experimental Thread-Like Processes: Multiple Executables in Shared Address Space

Summary

The article describes an experimental GitHub repository called 'threadprocs' that implements thread-like processes, allowing multiple executables to run in a shared address space. This approach blends the Posix process model with multi-threading, enabling features like zero-copy access to pointer-based data structures across different threadprocs. Each threadproc behaves like a process with its own executable, globals, and libc instance, while maintaining pointer validity across threadprocs. The repository includes demo code and mentions a related application framework called 'tproc-actors' built on top of threadprocs.