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I wonder if it would have ever reached mass adoption. While stability is important, the performance impact due to context-switches might have been big enough fo
by hrjet 12y ago
I wonder if it would have ever reached mass adoption. While stability is important, the performance impact due to context-switches might have been big enough for many use-cases.
- jacquesm 12y agoThat performance impact is a total myth. There are quite a few ways in which you can mitigate a large part of that and in actual use things like latency (which microkernels are very good at), soft-real time performance and context switch speed are far more important than raw throughput. I've built enormous systems using microkernels and there was absolutely no way we'd have gotten the same reliability and performance out of the macro-kernels of the day.
- huuu 12y agoSounds like this could be the next smartphone os. The kernel would never know about the massive amount of new features / sensors released every month.