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by doktrin 4892 days ago
> Order of magnitude performance improvement isn't going to be possible.

I think the term 'order of magnitude' has started taking on a connotation of essentially meaning 'a lot'. It's a fair observation, but I hear it bandied about so often that I rarely actually think the parties are in fact using it literally.
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gruseom 4892 days ago
Pretty sure you may assume that people here know what "order of magnitude" means.
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wmf 4892 days ago
In this case I don't even think 2x is possible.
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cpleppert 4892 days ago
It depends on how efficient/inefficient the OS's network stack and data transfer to user space is. For managed runtimes in a VM taking advantage of zero copy APIs is a challenge. I don't think 'order of magnitude' is possible but clearly there are a lot of cases where if implemented correctly this idea could dramatically improve performance.
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