Breaking backwards compatiblity
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sat Mar 10 01:16:10 PST 2012
On Saturday, March 10, 2012 10:12:44 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 10-03-2012 10:09, so wrote:
> > On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 08:53:23 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> >> In all fairness, a stop-the-world GC in a kernel probably *is* a
> >> horrible idea.
> >
> > For us (desktop users), it would not differ much would it now?
>
> Linux was never intended to be a pure desktop kernel. It's used widely
> in server and embedded machines.
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.
- Jonathan M Davis
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