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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:58:10 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said:

>> - 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.

Does not follow.  See also Exokernel.

-GAWollman



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