Thanks Charles for the quick reply! It is really interesting. Believe I can find more interesting things after digging deeper. Yan 2014-05-05 22:19 GMT-04:00 Charles Forsyth : > > On 6 May 2014 03:13, yan cui wrote: > >> Instead of digging much into the kernel code, I post the question here. >> Does the speed come from its good design or insufficient kernel support? > > > it's a bit of both: the compiler suite is much faster; the kernel source > is less than the size of their include files; old drivers and obsolete code > is eventually discarded; and it would be fair to say that device support is > more limited, certainly compared to Linux. > -- Think big; Dream impossible; Make it happen.