Biscuit: A monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go
Oh nice, the results are pretty good!<p>> On a set of kernel-intensive benchmarks (including NGINX and Redis) the fraction of kernel CPU time Biscuit spends on HLL features (primarily garbage collection and thread stack expansion checks) ranges up to 13%. The longest single GC-related pause suffered by NGINX was 115 microseconds; the longest observed sum of GC delays to a complete NGINX client request was 600 microseconds. In experiments comparing nearly identical system call, page fault, and context switch code paths written in Go and C, the Go version was 5% to 15% slower.<p>10% slowdown in return for memory safety could be a worthwhile tradeoff in some cases. And GC pauses were almost not an issue (less than 1ms in the worst measured).