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Ask HN: What are important trends in Operating System design?
Both trends that have materialised recently and future trends. I haven't been able to find much on this - is there much innovation in this space?
- JoachimSchipper 10y agoAssorted pointers: http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/ http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/ on the speed of modern persistent storage and the need to get the OS out of the way for best performance http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/02/custom-stack-it-goes-to-11.html http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/02/custom-stack-it-goes-to-11... on the speed of modern networking and the need to get the OS out of the way for best performance http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/12/19/safe-native-code/ http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/12/19/safe-native-code/ and the rest of that blog on Microsoft Research's Midori research OS, based on C# and type safety rather than traditional process-based (i.e. Memory Mapping Unit-based) security https://sel4.systems/ https://sel4.systems/ for a proven-secure (with many asterisks) native-code microkernel MirageOS (OCaml) and similar (often Rust-based) unikernels ... and of course, the rise of the heavyweight microkernel under the name "hypervisor" Each of these ideas has very serious downsides, but each also has earnest proponents.
- alvaroma94 10y agoko