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Wayfinder: Automated Operating System Specialization
Alexander Jung, Cezar Crăciunoiu, Nikolaos Karaolidis +5
Specializing an OS to optimize the performance of a particular application is typically a manual process that requires great expertise. Specialization through configuration lends i…
μFork: Supporting POSIX fork Within a Single-Address-Space OS
John Alistair Kressel, Hugo Lefeuvre, Pierre Olivier
Single-address-space operating systems have well-known lightweightness benefits that result from their central design idea: the kernel and applications share a unique address space…
Loupe: Driving the Development of OS Compatibility Layers
Hugo Lefeuvre, Gaulthier Gain, Vlad-Andrei Bădoiu +5
Supporting mainstream applications is fundamental for a new OS to have impact. It is generally achieved by developing a layer of compatibility allowing applications developed for a…
FlexOS: Towards Flexible OS Isolation
Hugo Lefeuvre, Vlad-Andrei Bădoiu, Alexander Jung +5
At design time, modern operating systems are locked in a specific safety and isolation strategy that mixes one or more hardware/software protection mechanisms (e.g. user/kernel sep…
Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way
Simon Kuenzer, Vlad-Andrei Bădoiu, Hugo Lefeuvre +12
Unikernels are famous for providing excellent performance in terms of boot times, throughput and memory consumption, to name a few metrics. However, they are infamous for making it…