On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:30:46AM +0100, so wrote: > On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 09:17:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > >And actually, when _responsiveness_ is one of the key features that a > >desktop OS requires, a stop-the-world GC in a desktop would probably > >be _worse_ than one in a server. > > My point is, every operation, even a mouse movement is already a > stop-the-world event for all the "modern" operating systems i have > encountered and Linux manages to take this to ridiculous levels. [...]
Huh??! Since when is mouse movement a stop-the-world event on Linux? I've been using Linux for the past 15 years and have never seen such a thing. T -- Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them. -- George Orwell