MIT CSAIL Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group

Project overview Biscuit is a monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go for x86-64 CPUs. We wrote it to study the performance trade-offs of using a high-level language with garbage collection to implement a kernel with a common style of architecture. The code OSDI’18 paper Cody Cutler’s PhD dissertation ;login: article People Cody Cutler (PhD) Prof. M. Frans Kaashoek Prof. Robert Morr

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“Biscuit is an operating system kernel written in Go, a high-level, garbage-collected language.”