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What types of programs are impacted by the lack of low overhead synchronous IPC?
by mee_too 9y ago
What types of programs are impacted by the lack of low overhead synchronous IPC?
- amluto 9y agoAs an example, there are a bunch of things that work well on microkernels on non-x86 architectures that involve splitting drivers across processes. On Windows, a lot of the windowing system is in the kernel in win32k.sys. Microsoft didn't do this for fun -- they did it because the old way (NT3.5?) was too slow.