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Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux Then
by VRay 8y ago
Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux
Then again, WinMo 7 was way faster and more responsive than Android at the time, and look how that turned out..
- zozbot123 8y agoThe PREEMPT_RT patchset (sometimes confusingly referred to as RT-Linux) is slated to improve the kernel quite a bit wrt. "low-latency" and "responsive" workloads.
- kokey 8y agoI'm not sure why this is such a problem in Linux, where latency is really not such a big problem in Darwin/MacOS/iOS.
- dralley 8y agoArchitected for throughput instead of latency.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoOne costs a lot to maintain, another doesn't.
- grumpydba 8y ago> Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux Still it's probably a lot cheaper to fix some latency issues on linux that to maintain your whole kernel. The main issue with linux is the GPL for drivers, a long with kernel API instability.
- zozbot123 8y ago> The main issue with linux is the GPL for drivers That's the main benefit with Linux. OEM drivers on MS Windows are a shit show, even on Windows 10.
- aries1980 8y agoI don't believe you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCHED_DEADLINE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCHED_DEADLINE