Re: [dev] Operating system choice

From: M Farkas-Dyck <strake888_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:08:09 -0500

On 20/11/2014, FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:53:12 -0500
> M Farkas-Dyck <strake888_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OpenBSD has poor multiprocessing performance but Bitrig is working on it.
>
> You can buy yourself performance by buying faster Hardware, but you
> can't buy yourself security.
> That's why choosing security is always better than choosing speed.

I ought to rather note that OpenBSD has cumbersome synchronization
mechanisms which also happen to be inefficient, and Bitrig is moving
to simpler synchronization mechanisms. For example: critical sections
rather than interrupt priority levels.

On 20/11/2014, Louis Santillan <lpsantil_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> systemd bus

Ah, I see what you did there ☺
Received on Fri Nov 21 2014 - 07:08:09 CET