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Wasn't that one of the selling points of micro kernels ? Small Kernel that starts and stops servers as needed depending on the circumstances.
by spiralpolitik 12y ago
Wasn't that one of the selling points of micro kernels ? Small Kernel that starts and stops servers as needed depending on the circumstances.
- breckinloggins 12y agoYes. Turns out the cost of context switches quickly overran the benefits of this approach, but things are slowly getting better. L4 is one approach. The library-OS approach (where apps run directly on virtualized hardware with a minimal OS) are another.