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by Glawen 527 days ago
We make embedded devices, the higher end are running linux.

But, they developped the linux devices as it was a desktop computer, the biggest latency hogs we have are multiprocess architecture over dbus, and event based UI which fetches live data. The result is a slow and hanging UX, which gets slower after each update, and is irritating customers. The lower end devices we sell are bare metal, and they are liked by our customers due to their swiftness. They just have a different architecture that focuses on end result (monolith, and a cache of data to display).