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Oh god, running an Em could just be a function call. Guess I'm not sleeping tonight.
Forking processes in Unix make use of copy-on-write memory, and forking uploads could perhaps be like that, so that when an upload copy terminates it literally is just losing some new memories. Would this be better or worse, I wonder, than making and deleting complete copies?
Why would it be worse?
It might be worse for example if you are a total utilitarian and complete copies count more than copy-on-write forks.
And in case anyone is wondering, it might be better because terminating a copy-on-write fork seems less like killing someone than deleting a complete copy.