> For a lot of use cases, the kernel / OS doesn't make a huge contribution to overall performance. As long as you don't use something tragically bad, it'll be f

> For a lot of use cases, the kernel / OS doesn't make a huge contribution to overall performance. As long as you don't use something tragically bad, it'll be fine. This is what I was thinking, but did a poor job communicating. I think that Linux, because of all the work poured into it, will usually be good enough. Even though its been less meticulously constructed than DFly and didn't have as much forethought put into picking low overhead SMP algorithms and data structures and what not, in the end, the differences between Linux and DFly in performance will be pretty minimal. So when faced with using a strange and novel platform with software incompatibilities and possibly a slight performance gain in certain situations, or using the familiar, most people will pick the familiar, and for justifiable reasons IMO.