Knowing the absolute and "human clock/calendar" time is essential to an OS's activities. Here's a look at how Linux systems handle it... and how faster CPU speeds and bigger systems have added new challenges, and solved old problems.
Six Hours With A World-Class Kernel Hacker
Moshe Bar
The following few thousand words could loosely be defined as a transcript of an interview that Moshe did with world-famous kernel hacker Andrea Arcangeli, in Italy, in January 2000.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
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