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You and Linus are working off different definitions of "solved". Sure they did it, he never said it can't be done. But does it run efficiently and quickly?
by brian_cloutier 14y ago
You and Linus are working off different definitions of "solved". Sure they did it, he never said it can't be done.
But does it run efficiently and quickly?
- zanny 14y agoIt isn't slow enough for me not to notice while tinkering with it. Of course, I'm running it a kvm vm and have 8 cores of 3.5 ghz going on. It would be hard for a terminal environment to be slow on that.
- zanny 14y agoIt isn't slow enough for me not to notice while tinkering with it. Of course, I'm running it a kvm vm and have 8 cores of 3.5 ghz going on. It would be hard for a terminal environment to be slow on that. I'd aruge: not slow enough not to be worth the benefits of userspace everything, the ability to have a completely distributed system, and not slow enough not to make the interaces with the kernel not wonderful. I much like how plan 9 skips the whole RPC and syscall nonsense and does almost straight file IO and socket communication for everything. It is like Java vs C - it isn't slow enough not to take the niceties in some circumstances. High performance computing might like the Linux kernel, but as a developer who wants working applications that are really easy to interface with OS features, Plan 9 has that nailed.
- fffggg 14y agoTerminal environment? You're gauging the performance of the kernel by interactive typing performance? I don't know where to start.