[bitwize]

Small isolated components lead to communication overhead and can cripple performance.

They offer certain advantages, too, but this is no different from any other software-engineering tradeoff.

There's a reason why the winning kernel is a monolithic kernel, and the winning init system is one large God-daemon that replaces many smaller legacy daemons.

[rcoh]

There's a difference between the performance you want in your kernel and the performance you need sharing to Facebook. It seems like creating monolithic mobile apps is premature optimization.