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Random pauses and inferior performance
by ducktective 4y ago
Random pauses and inferior performance
- hayley-patton 4y agoCompared to the other pauses kernels make? Biscuit (POSIX in Go [0]) introduced at worst a pause of 115 microseconds and a slowdown due to GC and safety checks of 15%. But the forementioned systems don't have a kernel/userspace split; Microsoft measured the split made a server 25 to 33% _slower_ [1]. [0] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/biscuit:login19.pdf https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/biscuit:login19.pdf [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1178597.1178599 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1178597.1178599
- ducktective 4y agoThanks for the link. Didn't know about this.