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Re:Single Address Space Operating System by noselasd on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:41PM (#7556484)
I'm still not seeing the real benefits.

What, specifically, is bad/wrong about the traditional way of doing process isolation, and what does this approach bring to the table ?

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Re:Single Address Space Operating System by amaranth on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:03PM (#7557113)
The folks at Microsoft Research who worked on Singularity claim the so called "Unsafe Code Tax" from the existing system is a 30-40% performance hit.

http://webcourse.cs.technion.ac.il/236376/Spring2013/ho/WCFi...

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