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Re:Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would be reb... by jrockway on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @05:43PM (#2256145)
It was an engineering trade-off like any other. Would you be willing to reboot your computer once a month if it meant everything would be 1000x faster? Of course. So were the Mach designers, apparently.
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Re:Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would be reb... by Locke1689 on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @05:47PM (#2256157)
Except that I've looked at a lot of OS memory management code and the savings are not 1000x.
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