The increasing irrelevance of IPC Performance for Micro-kernel-Based Operating Systems

IPC is the glue with which traditional operating system services such as networking, and ling, are provided in microkernel-based operating systems. Because applications rely heavily on cross-address space communication, IPC performance is often viewed as being the \Achilles heel" of a microkernel-based operating system. In this paper I discuss four reasons why IPC performance is becoming increasingly irrelevant to overall system performance.

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