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Re:Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0% by merb on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:54AM (#28035061)
Btw Windows built an api based on io_uring https://windows-internals.com/i-o-rings-when-one-i-o-operati...
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Re:Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0% by vardump on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:02AM (#28035115)
Nice! Haven't heard about this before, must be something really new?

Anyways given extremely high syscall cost due to Meltdown workarounds, batching multiple operations makes more and more sense.

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Re:Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0% by merb on Monday August 02, 2021 @09:21AM (#28036164)
well as far as I know I've read something about it either on lwn or hn and it's really really new. I'm not exactly sure if it is even possible to use.
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