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Microkernels are IPC-heavy, right? What I rather imagine is having modules at source level, not kernel level. So the thing still compiles down to a monolith/hyb

by d33 8y ago

Microkernels are IPC-heavy, right? What I rather imagine is having modules at source level, not kernel level. So the thing still compiles down to a monolith/hybrid, but modules are abstracted away and reusable.

fooker 8y ago
Source level modules sound awesome. Would need a high level language though.
- nicoburns 8y ago
  Like Rust?
  - fooker 8y ago
    Maybe, I would personally go with C++.
jacquesm 8y ago
The IPC overhead is very much manageable, microkernels tend to be a lot more responsive than monoliths and with paging for message passing the overhead is reduced even further.