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This seems, to me, to be one of the few cases of truly intrinsic complexity.
by Akronymus 6y ago
This seems, to me, to be one of the few cases of truly intrinsic complexity.
- pcr910303 6y agoI’m not sure if it’s ‘true’ intrinsic complexity: one can argue that the complexity comes from the kernel having so many different modes. (E.g. a ‘simple’ single-threaded cooperative kernel might not have this complexity.) But it definitely is ‘useful’ complexity...
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agojust adding interrupts and multiple cores is enough to break that kind of "simplicity".
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoIt is perhaps because it needs to do all those things because it's one thing used for many different things, providing detection for it's own context. Much of the complexity in many cases could be alleviated by different functions depending on what context it is called from.