Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>
To: pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance
Date: 2007-11-28 03:05:04
Message-ID: C37228F0.86FC7%scott_ribe@killerbytes.com
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> Kind of. Mach is still running underneath (and a lot of the app APIs
> use it directly) but there is a BSD 'personality' above it which
> (AIUI) is big parts of FreeBSD ported to run on Mach.

Right. Also, to be clear, OS X is not a true microkernel architecture. They
took the "division of responsibilities" from the Mach microkernel design,
but Mach is compiled into the kernel and is not a separate process from the
kernel.

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