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From: Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:54:05 -0800
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i agree with you. i think the model, although done for reasons of
expediency, has some advantages.  the split stack provides a
unique and powerful memory abstraction: same address, different
value.  (c.f. the up and mp registers in the kernel.)

> I see Linus' logic as more of a negation of both efficiency and
> reliability.

i don't understand his logic.

-rob