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Having a tough time understanding the impacts of this work. Fast boot times matter if you boot often. So what’s the use case here? Hmm, actually I’m not sure I even understand the whole “serverless” thing that much to be honest. Running FreeBSD as if it’s a “process” on Linux is interesting in a way but - who does this?
I don't think that's correct. While the optimized sorting algorithm is 100x times faster than the old sorting algorithm, it was only a small part of the boot process (2ms), so the boot speed up is only 7%.
Having a tough time understanding the impacts of this work. Fast boot times matter if you boot often. So what’s the use case here? Hmm, actually I’m not sure I even understand the whole “serverless” thing that much to be honest. Running FreeBSD as if it’s a “process” on Linux is interesting in a way but - who does this?
Also this is meant to make things easier and cheaper. But they are anything but easier and anything but cheaper compared to non serverless. It also leads to captive customers. But it drives a whole industry of training, consulting and selling AWS services.
Having a tough time understanding the impacts of this work. Fast boot times matter if you boot often. So what’s the use case here? Hmm, actually I’m not sure I even understand the whole “serverless” thing that much to be honest. Running FreeBSD as if it’s a “process” on Linux is interesting in a way but - who does this?
First line of article: Replacing a sort algorithm in the FreeBSD kernel has improved its boot speed by a factor of 100 or more This is obviously not true.
First line of article: Replacing a sort algorithm in the FreeBSD kernel has improved its boot speed by a factor of 100 or more This is obviously not true.
It's a bit of clonky writing, but in proper English "its boot speed" relates to the algorithm and not the FreeBSD kernel
From the article, Colin Percival on how Linux does as well. Impressive (though would be good to see other benchmarks to corroborate Colin's).
(Which is an HN comment actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205578.)
If you fired a bullet at 450m/s at a FreeBSD machine sitting 50 feet away, it would have enough time to boot up and perform operations before being struck and destroyed by the bullet.
450 m/s is 1620 km/h
If you fired a bullet at 450m/s at a FreeBSD machine sitting 50 feet away, it would have enough time to boot up and perform operations before being struck and destroyed by the bullet.