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## `Bun.spawn` – spawn a process
-`Bun.spawn` lets you quickly spawn a process. Available as of Bun v0.2.0.
+`Bun.spawn` lets you quickly spawn a process.
+
+Available as of Bun v0.2.0, it tends to perform around 60% faster than child_process and scales better as your application uses more memory.
+
+```zig
+bun/bench/snippets on  main
+❯ bun spawn.mjs
+cpu: Apple M1 Max
+runtime: bun 0.2.0 (arm64-darwin)
+
+benchmark time (avg) (min … max) p75 p99 p995
+--------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
+spawnSync echo hi 888.14 µs/iter (821.83 µs … 1.2 ms) 905.92 µs 1 ms 1.03 ms
+
+bun/bench/snippets on  main
+❯ node spawn.node.mjs
+cpu: Apple M1 Max
+runtime: node v18.9.1 (arm64-darwin)
+
+benchmark time (avg) (min … max) p75 p99 p995
+--------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------
+spawnSync echo hi 1.47 ms/iter (1.14 ms … 2.64 ms) 1.57 ms 2.37 ms 2.52 ms
+```
```ts
import { spawn } from "bun";