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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:58:10 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sy 
Message-ID:  <62543.961621090@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:13:26 %2B1000." <00Jun22.065502est.115212@border.alcanet.com.au> 

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In message <00Jun22.065502est.115212@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy write
s:
>Other areas:
>- You don't want your webserver paging or swapping - so most of the VM
>  subsystem can be thrown away.
>- Since all processes are the server, most of the uid-based security
>  mechanisms can be thrown out.
>- Dropping the distinction between userspace and kernel space removes
>  the need to support ring-transitions (which are quite expensive).

...and of course you want to write it in assembler so the C compiler
doesn't produce inefficient code.

Hardware is cheaper than programmers hours...

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