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Amazing! Great job!

What limits your tool to compiler/build tools, can it be used for any arbitrary process?

Thank you! Yeah it can be used for any type of program, but I haven't been able to think of anything besides compilation that creates enough processes to be interesting. I'm open to ideas!

Video encoding and 3-D rendering are a couple that come to mind; I'd think they'd launch quite a few.

This looks like a really cool tool!

Just as a random example in the area, I had a project where I transformed every frame in a video, using a custom binary, before encoding them back to the video.

Hundreds of thousands of processes were normal.

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