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I seem to recall reading that IOCP was a killer feature of the NT kernel. Does Linux have something comparable? The article also doesn't suggest how Windows wo

by curt15 5y ago

I seem to recall reading that IOCP was a killer feature of the NT kernel. Does Linux have something comparable? The article also doesn't suggest how Windows would retain its legendary backward compatibility if it were to switch to a Linux base.

skywal_l 5y ago
By officially supporting wine?
- codetrotter 5y ago
  Wine is great, but it is far off from being a substitute for Windows itself. There’s bound to be not just the obvious bugs and incompatibilities but also think of all of the edge cases that Microsoft have implemented fixes and workarounds for over the years. There is, IMO, simply no way that Wine could ever completely replace Windows on a global scale.
voxic11 5y ago
Yeah Linux now has io_uring to compete with iocp.
- wtallis 5y ago
  And Windows has in turn cloned io_uring, probably because the latter allows for lower overhead.
  - voxic11 5y ago
    Yeah io_uring is more general (flexible) and has some performance advantages over iocp.
hvgk 5y ago
Syscall overheads, NTFS and the network stack are so fucking abysmal that any gains are eaten anyway.