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The biggest limiting factor at the moment with Hurd is their choice for the base microkernel, currently Mach which hasn't had substantial updates for years. Wh
by synchronise 11y ago
The biggest limiting factor at the moment with Hurd is their choice for the base microkernel, currently Mach which hasn't had substantial updates for years.
While Hurd improves its userspace support, the should also revisit the idea of rebasing the OS on L4 (where you can also load a Linux instance in userspace for compatibility) or Minix3 which has been working on its own kernel features.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agowhich hasn't had substantial updates for years. Not true. GNU Mach has been undergoing lots of refactoring recently with regards to locking, protected payloads for threefold lowering of RPC lookups, the VM subsystem and so forth.
- synchronise 11y agoSo what sort of performance improvements have been made? Is Mach now in the same bracket as other, newer microkernels?