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		spiralpolitik on Feb 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps Wasn't that one of the selling points of micro kernels ? Small Kernel that starts and stops servers as needed depending on the circumstances.

breckinloggins on Feb 6, 2015 [–]

Yes. Turns out the cost of context switches quickly overran the benefits of this approach, but things are slowly getting better. L4 is one approach. The library-OS approach (where apps run directly on virtualized hardware with a minimal OS) are another.

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