| Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2000 03:03:46 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design |
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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 04:58:45PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> Could you elaborate? AFAIK, both Neutrino and exec.library are microkernels, > and they by no means lack performance. Even Windows is a microkernel (sort > of), and it doesn't lack in performance that much.
Exec.library with it's aproximately 6kb can hardly be compared with a full featured kernel like Linux. Look at something like filesystems. If you write a multithreaded filesystem for the Amiga you'll hit alot of complexity which you'll never have to think about for a monolithic kernel. Makes monolithic kernels look sweet as sugar in comparison.
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