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... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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