Linux vs. Hurd
Checa esto.
Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org> writes:
> >>>>> Oliver Thuns writes:
>
> OT> What a the pros and cons between Debian/Hurd and Debian/Linux
>
> Currently, GNU/Hurd is not as useful as GNU/Linux.
>
> Server applications vs. multimedia applications do not matter nearly
> as much as whether your application is single-threaded and monolithic,
> or multithreaded and modular.
>
> When the Hurd is more stable, it will be much more efficient for
> threaded, CORBA-based applications because of Mach's lightweight
> threading and message-passing facilities. This will require a free
> IDL translator that uses Mach RPC, though, which to my knowledge does
> not exist (yet).
>
> Also, every Hurd server is roughly equivalent to a CORBA object, and
> so it would be possible to eventually eliminate a lot of glibc glue
> code from GNOME, Berlin, etc, and just use Hurd interface calls
> directly.
>
> The potential is for a faster, more modular system. However, software
> that uses only the standard Unix glibc calls will always run slower
> than that which takes advantage of the Hurd's architecture.
>
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