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Torvalds on the Microkernel Debate

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-met-a-pointer-i-could-trust dept.

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linus Torvalds has chimed in on the recently flamed-up (again) micro vs monolithic kernel, but this time with an interesting and unexpected point of view. From the article: 'The real issue, and it's really fundamental, is the issue of sharing address spaces. Nothing else really matters. Everything else ends up flowing from that fundamental question: do you share the address space with the caller or put in slightly different terms: can the callee look at and change the callers state as if it were its own (and the other way around)?'"

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  1. Just do it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So there's a performance hit, right? Computers are fast enough enough these days, right? That's what the Java folks have foisting on us all along. Or, wait, isn't Java fast as or faster than C++? Performance doesn't matter if you can disguise the slow load times with a "time warp" (i.e. splash screen, lazy loading)? WHO'S LYING?

  2. Re:Obvious by spacecowboy420 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ok, I don't normally do this, but dude - either you're an idiot, or a troll.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux/

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    ymmv
  3. Re:Code talks by Detritus · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Shit is the breakfast of champions. 7 trillion flies can't be wrong.

    Popularity does not imply quality or elegance. Debating the merits of Windows vs. Linux vs. BSD is like holding a beauty contest at a leper colony.

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    Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
  4. Re:Multiple-processes: micro vs monolithic by Lemming+Mark · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Dude, if I had mod points you'd be getting some +5 funny love right now. :-)

    Incidentally, my post would have been less monolithic if I'd remembered /. requires the

    tags. Ah well.