Breaking backwards compatiblity

[Jonathan M Davis]

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