| | Rice Computer Science: Rice Computer Science-Colloquia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | This talk proposes a new approach, the exokernel architecture, which makes resource management unprivileged but safe by separating management from protection: an exokernel protects resources, while untrusted application-level software manages them. |
 | | Our prototype exokernel system runs a web server 8 times faster than the closest equivalent on the same hardware, common unaltered Unix applications up to three times faster, and improves global system performance up to a factor of five. |
 | | Results include the measured performance of real applications on Xok, an x86-based exokernel implementation, and a description of techniques invented to achieve the most difficult goals of the exokernel approach. |
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