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csb6today at 7:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

Does anyone more familiar with Hurd know how they addressed performance issues encountered by other Mach-based kernels? I remember reading that one of Mach's bottlenecks was validating that each IPC message had proper permissions/access when sending them between processes due to the large number and frequency of messages.


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glhaynestoday at 8:23 PM

Is there reason to think they've addressed them?

floxytoday at 7:59 PM

Is that a bottleneck anymore? Maybe something that was appreciable in 1994 isn't a big performance hit in 2026?

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