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Re:Performance Matters by renox on Monday August 19, 2019 @01:04PM (#20739520)
And Amiga had no memory protection which means that it would be very unsafe to use Internet with it. That said BeOS was quite responsive and had memory protection, but still inadequate security for modern security attacks.
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Re:Performance Matters by bmurphy1976 on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:07PM (#20740760)
The memory protection doesn't account for the performance hit. It's all the layers of shitty software and garbage devices on top.
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Re:Performance Matters by renox on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:27AM (#20745071)
Memory protection only adds a small performance hit that's true but it also requires a totally different way of working. I don't know much about Amiga but I remember that when reading about Synthesis (a very fast & low latency kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying_code#Synthesis ) thinking that it was only possible without memory protection..
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