Replacing Linux with a Database System
If you click through to the actual paper at the bottom of the article, the methodology here is just astonishing: they start by, without evidence, asserting that the main thing fork() does is to insert and remove processes from a list of processes. Then they write a program that creates a table of processes in a distributed database and adds and removes rows from it. Then they compare the speed of that with the speed of actually running fork() on the same cluster of machines. That’s the entire paper.  You can’t make this stuff up.<p>“I am not able rightly to apprehend the confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage