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What in particular do you find to be lacking in the linux kernel?
by zadler 7y ago
What in particular do you find to be lacking in the linux kernel?
- rrdharan 7y agoI/O completion ports was always my go to answer for this but perhaps recent async improvements have helped close that gap? [see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11865760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11865760 for a lively discussion on this topic]
- jcranmer 7y agoSome features that Windows did better than Linux/Unix: * IOCP is loads better than epoll * SEH is a better model for synchronous processor instructions than Unix signals * Windows allows some better/easier ways to introspect or modify other processes than Linux does. You can't change another processes memory map on Linux, whereas you can on Windows. And /proc is a pretty poor interface for getting process data, IMHO.