Breaking backwards compatiblity

[so]

On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 09:17:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

> And actually, when _responsiveness_ is one of the key features 
> that a desktop
> OS requires, a stop-the-world GC in a desktop would probably be 
> _worse_ than
> one in a server.

My point is, every operation, even a mouse movement is already a 
stop-the-world event for all the "modern" operating systems i 
have encountered and Linux manages to take this to ridiculous 
levels.