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Is that a bottleneck anymore? Maybe something that was appreciable in 1994 isn't a big performance hit in 2026?
Isn't it even worse now? The faster computers get, the more that software-induced bottlenecks hurt.
Adding 20% to a 10 second operation is a lot longer on a wall clock than adding 20% to a 1 second operation.
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Isn't it even worse now? The faster computers get, the more that software-induced bottlenecks hurt.
I could see just powering through because modern hardware is fast enough to do so being an option. Adding 20% to a 10 second operation is a lot longer on a wall clock than adding 20% to a 1 second operation.
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Isn't it even worse now? The faster computers get, the more that software-induced bottlenecks hurt.
I'm not a Hurd contributor ( or any OS kernel / library ). I'm not sure this holds today. One example I can see is related to crypto. We used to have specific hardware for computing cryptography functions but it's now handled directly in standard hardware and the software has not evolved ( but it's been faster and faster to compute checksum functions )
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Isn't it even worse now? The faster computers get, the more that software-induced bottlenecks hurt.
I could see just powering through because modern hardware is fast enough to do so being an option. Adding 20% to a 10 second operation is a lot longer on a wall clock than adding 20% to a 1 second operation.
If I could get a micro kernel with a better security profile than Linux, that doesn’t sound so bad. I could easily be using a ten year old chip for my day to day browsing and probably wouldn’t notice.
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You are calling a Linux (sorry, GNU/Linux) killer small silly stuff?
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, just Linux.
I hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something.
Hurd will have its day once Linux makes it on the desktop :-)
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Not really, that was a fluke, still below 10%, although getting closer with 7.53%. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
Both numbers are big, no? Especially given the complete dominance of linux in many other settings.
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No, but that is what they will ever get from OEMs selling PCs at computer stores used by normies. Also lets not forget those distros play Windows games, because hardly any studio bothers with native Linux games.
They play both, which is much better for adoption anyway? And it's contributed substantial improvements back to wine and other projects.
Game studios will keep buying Windows, using Visual Studio, and let Valve do the needful.
Additionally people keep acting as if Valve and Gabe will be around forever, they won't, none of us will.