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Re:The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a hig... by dymk on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:29PM (#18172437)
Having built reference counted systems, they're anything but easy to understand unless you're greatly restricting the graph of objects and the references they can have to each other. And once you've restricted who can point to what, you've lost a lot of the flexibility that a RC system affords.
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Re:The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a hig... by btilly on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:38PM (#18178059)
The system itself can be hard to understand.

The basis on which the system works is easy to understand.

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