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Skip the OS and Get 40 million Requests Per Second in Lua

by vimes656 on 2/13/14, 6:59 PM with 1 comments

• by valarauca1 on 2/13/14, 7:42 PM

  The problem with most software development is people are trying to distance them as far from the metal as they can, while a the same time trying to make software faster and faster. While not understanding these things are mutually exclusive. As you add layers of software between you and the metal you increase your dependency on 'middleware' software.

  But with modern websoftware which has layers of layers of software between it and the metal.. Even if you are 100% prefect you have layers taxing your execution. This is provable via a deconstructive proof.

  I've often wondered what it would be like to double back on history and make a new OS that works as nothing more then a 'Tape Header'. Because in modern times most OS's exist only as a virtual environment. This environment runs a single demon, on a single shard of a larger machine.