Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>]

> esoteric network interfaces combined with a single 700 MHz simple
> embedded in-order processor.

there's actually some parallelism inside that processor: it's not that simple-minded,
just a little slow for what it's asked to do (even if there's no work to be done on the data).

>That being said however, any advantages we can get on the relatively
>slow hardware should benefit the efficiency (if not the latency and performance) of the faster

i think there's quite a bit of scope for performance improvements without doing violence
to the overall structure or messing up the implementation.  i hope some things end up
being smaller and cleaner.