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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by p_ing on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @11:29AM (#43268770)
Well, Windows (in a form) is the hypervisor for the Azure infrastructure. Azure Web Sites when run as Windows/IIS are Windows containers. Makes sense.

Honestly I don't know what XNU/Darwin is good for. It doesn't do anything especially well compared to *BSD, Linux, and NT.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by hedora on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:55PM (#43269934)
Its async i/o APIs are best in class (i.e., compatible with BSD, and not Linux’s epoll tire fire).

Not disagreeing though.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by p_ing on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:46AM (#43280819)
Linux has io_uring. NT outclasses XNU by a long shot with IOCP, Registered I/O, and IO Ring (io_uring copy).
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