Re: MIG->Corba

[Mridul Jain]

--- "Eray Ozkural (exa)" <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
wrote:
> Well he said performance is not really an issue, but
> this
> is one thing that linux people have been bashing
> hurd with.
> Performance has always been a primary design
> objective in OS
> design.

Well don't you assume that the performance in HURD
cannot be increased.Some effort is required than just
pure denial.
 
> But wait a minute. My god, you intend to turn emacs
> to
> really an operating system now. That's scary. ;)

I don't think there is any need discussing this
further , may be you can stick with a language, others
needn't.
 
> You know, both solaris kernel and win2k kernel are
> pretty
> modular.

Practically the way it has grown, the the modularity
is of little use I guess as far as MS is concerned.

> In fact, the win2k kernel _is_ a
> microkernel
> design so you could say that it's really similar to
> HURD.

Theoritically may be it started that way but
ultimately can you really compare it to HURD?
Their microkernel itself has bloted to a big extent
which kills it's purpose.

> Anyway, those
> people have been there'n' done that, and AFAIK they
> aren't trying to
> facilitate a multi-language development for their
> modular
> kernels, why not? 

Come on let's not bring in Billy here.Ok you can be
happy coding in VB thro'out.
  
> In my opinion, you have persuasive arguments that
> the
> implementation can have good performance. I'm not
> well
> persuaded by them though, because I try to reckon
> the distributed
> case which I believe might not be very good with
> CORBA.

Any better alternatives you have??:-)
 
> On the other hand, reliability and development costs
> may be
> more serious, especially the development cost.

Yes effort is required!!!But didn't quite understand 
you on reliablity??

Mridul.

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