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+arr = [1,2,3]
+
+fork do
+  # At this point the child process has been initialized.
+  # Using CoW this process doesn't need to copy the arr variable, 
+  # since it hasn't modified any shared values it can continue reading 
+  # from the same memory location as the parent process.
+  p arr
+end
+