[NTLUG:Discuss] MFS launched

[Steve Baker]

Will Senn wrote:
> Will Senn wrote:
> 
>> - with a microkernel you can take a 10% or thereabouts penalty
> 
> This sounds like I snatched a number from an unmentionable location, so 
> here's the rephrase:
> - with a microkernel you can take a significant penalty in performance
> 
> (I remember reading the 10% somewhere, I just can't remember where...)

That's what Tannenbaum claims.  It was mentioned in one of his
anti-Brown rants recently.

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