> In reality, this is a red herring in most critiques of microkernels.
That’s true. I remember reading the L4 microkernel papers, showing how they achieved really decent message-passing performance on Intel 486 processors IIRC. I figure context switches are even more optimised on modern architectures.
That’s true. I remember reading the L4 microkernel papers, showing how they achieved really decent message-passing performance on Intel 486 processors IIRC. I figure context switches are even more optimised on modern architectures.