Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-defined networking OS

Re:Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-... by trentnelson on Friday September 18, 2015 @10:52AM (#10239501)

> are probably only beaten by Solaris and Aix specific APIs.

They're definitely not. AIX copied the IOCP interface almost verbatim, but missed one critical piece: associating an IOCP with a desired concurrency level. Solaris added event ports, but again, they missed the concurrency link too.

The root of the problem on UNIX is the readiness I/O model.

See https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-... for more info.

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Re:Microsoft has developed its own Linux: in-house software-... by pjmlp on Friday September 18, 2015 @03:33PM (#10241543)

Thanks for the heads up. It's been a decade since I touched Solaris and Aix.

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