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agwa on May 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The cost of Linux's page fault handling

Itanium too.

Coming up with a better architecture is easy compared to the challenge of getting people to actually use it.

Rusky on May 1, 2014 [–]

I think it's at least partially a problem of not being better enough than "good enough". Not to mention Itanium (and maybe Sparc, I don't know enough about it to say) had plenty of its own problems, including with interrupt handling.

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