Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fixing it must be fun though, I'll have to look up the proposed > solutions. Comparing with the linux syscall speeds will be _tough_.
I think the cost of an L4 ipc between address spaces is on the order of a few hundred cycles. Then there are the effects on caches etc, I don't know any numbers but at least the L4 footprint is reaonably small. > You'll notice btw that what I cite is not incompatible with a > microkernel approach (well, the cache unification may be hard). It's > Mach itself I consider badly designed by today standards, not the > microkernel concept per se. We can all agree Mach is big and slow. That's no news. Regards, /Niels _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
