Breaking backwards compatiblity

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:30:46AM +0100, so wrote:
> 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.
[...]

Huh??! Since when is mouse movement a stop-the-world event on Linux?
I've been using Linux for the past 15 years and have never seen such a
thing.


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