[E-Lang] Performance and complete mediation

[Karp, Alan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan S. Shapiro [mailto:shap@eros-os.org]
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:31 AM
> To: Karp, Alan; e-lang@mail.eros-os.org
> Subject: Re: [E-Lang] Performance and complete mediation
> 
> 
> 				(snip)
> 
> However, it's important to acknowledge that the copy overhead is a
> *necessary* cost. 
>

I thought we could just swap pointers instead of copying the buffers, but I
guess we'd have to be in the kernel to do it securely.

>				(snip)
> 
> Jonathan
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