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Somewhat agree, but it depends. I agree that core of the operating system (kernel) should be responsive, but there are many tasks in the operating system that don't require immediate response and can be run in batch. Usually these are higher-level decisions, such as any housekeeping tasks like file backup and indexing, workload reprioritization and optimization, system update and reconfiguration, and the like.


Yeah, then you write a GC or use a library ;)




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