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johncolanduonilast Thursday at 5:47 PM1 replyview on HN

I mentioned XNU below. It doesn’t really count as a microkernel if you, you know, don’t actually use the microkernel part. At least for the 30 years between the FreeBSD collision and the introduction of DriverKit, which does most of its IPC through shared memory (because the mach ports are not efficient enough, I would assume).


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saagarjhayesterday at 7:24 AM

Yes, but a lot of other things use Mach messages.

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