It runs in millions of cars and other embedded systems, not that niche tbh. Your "exception" is the rule for a lot of engineers.
But yes, they took pride that process switching is as efficient as thread switching which is a slick way of selling that they never optimized threads to be better, unlike Linux. Until QNX8 there is also the "big kernel lock"...
> It runs in millions of cars and other embedded systems, not that niche tbh.
Linux (in some mutilated form) runs on billions of devices. Hell, even JavaME does; or at least did, not sure what current status is. That's not really a worthwhile comparison.
My 'niche' mention was in relation to number of devs who'd be familiar with it.
> Your "exception" is the rule for a lot of engineers.
Now, that's a fair comparison... but I wager "a lot" is still not nearly the number of engineers/devs that work with e.g. Linux. That's not to cast any aspersions, of course. After all it's often not really a choice of the engineer's part.
But yes, they took pride that process switching is as efficient as thread switching which is a slick way of selling that they never optimized threads to be better, unlike Linux. Until QNX8 there is also the "big kernel lock"...