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Don't make me laugh

Don't make me laugh

Posted Nov 18, 2011 3:55 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Don't make me laugh by pepe
Parent article: Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum (LinuxFr.org)

L4 is not especially fast. It's just that it's mostly used on a hardware slow enough to make constant context switches tolerable. Some of the ARM chips even have hardware support for fast context switching!

But in general, yes, it's slower than a monolithic kernel


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