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Here's a quick ELI5 style question: what are the implications of Meltdown mitigations on microkernel architectures (vs monolithic designs)?
by markonen 9y ago
Here's a quick ELI5 style question: what are the implications of Meltdown mitigations on microkernel architectures (vs monolithic designs)?
- Promarged 9y agoSingularity used Software Isolated Processes. Basically the apps were distributed as .NET bytecode, compiled by Bartok on the target system to native code. That guaranteed that processes never accessed each other's memory so you wouldn't need regular process isolation. I haven't thought about the implications to reading kernel memory but it'd be great to see a paper on the subject.