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		jrockway on Feb 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would... It was an engineering trade-off like any other. Would you be willing to reboot your computer once a month if it meant everything would be 1000x faster? Of course. So were the Mach designers, apparently.

Locke1689 on Feb 23, 2011 [–]

Except that I've looked at a lot of OS memory management code and the savings are not 1000x.

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