Notes and Jottings

From comments to [an article on LWN.net](http://lwn.net/Articles/55317/) which espoused a belief as to what was wrong with current Linux, and what people should be aiming for. I haven’t read the article so I won’t comment on that, but this note was amusing:

> Since the superiority of micro over monolithic is so obvious, the only remaining detail is how to optimize the communication between the various components. Some have suggested XML, but I feel this is far too low level. If we put natural language processors in each kernel component, the communication could be done in a natural, and hence better, way. Now, this could be the source of some slight loss in speed, so the kernel components could have some embedded AI which would learn to use slang to speed things up a bit. This could be extended to user space, so that the NG Mozilla, instead of doing a malloc for another gigabyte of memory, could just do a system call which said (literally) “Gimme my usual”. And the kernel, knowing it came from NG Mozilla, would know what to do.

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