Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 13th Dec 2005 07:53 UTC
"Though most people don't know it, Microsoft has, not one, but two new operating systems that it is working on. The first, Vista, many people have heard of. Currently scheduled to ship just after the second coming of Christ, Vista has garnered most of the spotlight. However there is another OS lurking in the basement in Redmond and its name is Singularity (.pdf). So what does Singularity look like? A joke, at least at first glance. But taking a moment to analyze the situation I came up with some interesting observations which I will now share with you."
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Congratulations on missing the point of the document entirely. It did not say that "on Unix, programs are statically linked", rather that, in their test, programs were statically linked. But that wasn't the point of the test. The point of the test was to show that Singularity's overhead for accessing system services is an order of magnitude lower than Linux's or Windows, which should be the case, because both have to deal with very expensive transitions between hardware protection domains.
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2005-07-06
If you look the sixth chapter of the document you learn that the current Windows beats Linux in performance and memory usage. Did you know that "on the Unix systems, the programs are statically linked to bring in their libraries" as the document tells?
For me the Singularity operating system seems to be currently only way to spread Microsoft marketing propaganda.