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The kernel, I've been told by people more knowledgeable about this things than myself, is a work of beauty. But the layers and layers of Win32 that sit on top o
by krylon 3y ago
The kernel, I've been told by people more knowledgeable about this things than myself, is a work of beauty. But the layers and layers of Win32 that sit on top of it do a great job of covering that up.
- ladyanita22 3y agoWell, the benchmarks don't tell that.
- krylon 3y agoYou know what they say about benchmarks... ;-) I prefer Linux, but performance is not my main grief about Windows.
- temac 3y agoI fail to see what is particularly brillant about this kernel. Drivers are convoluted. IRQL is convoluted. The supposed distniction between "kernel" and executive has little definition and is convoluted (esp given it duplicates somes primitives for no real reasons). The HAL was a false good idea and Cultler himself agree with that. The network stack splitted betwen user and kernel space makes no sense (and the story behind this, including afd.sys, is ridiculous) It's a not great / not terrible kernel, like most are (Linux included)
- krylon 3y agoI rely entirely on hearsay. You sound like you know more about the NT kernel's internals than I do, so I'll take your word for it.
- milutinovici 3y agoWhich kernels are good?