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  • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldNo Mercy
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    9 days ago

    Performance is the major flaw with microkernels that have prevented the half-dozen or more serious attempts at this to succeed.

    Incurring context switching for low-level operations is just too slow.

    An alternative might be a safe/provable language for kernel and drivers where the compiler can guarantee properties of kernel modules instead of requiring hardware guarantees, and it ends up in one address space/protection boundary. But then the compiler (and its output) becomes a trusted component.



















  • Sadly my parents’ new IP phone service uses the dialtone as some kind of branding trick - you go off-hook and get this “designed” audio prompt that slides into a normal dialtone, presumably to make you remember you’re not just using “the phone”. It was very disconcerting when I first heard it.