Derivation and validation of software metrics
Derivation and validation of software metrics
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Interface definition languages are omnipresent in microkernel-based operating systems for providing a time-tested solution for realizing communication between user-level components. Driven by advancing kernels and application demands, IDL compilers and the generated communication-stub code have become significant contributors to the tool-chain complexity and the size of the trusted-computing base of such systems. This paper examines the performance and the engineering costs of an alternative technique for RFC communication between microkernel servers. Initially intended as an interim solution, the presented approach turned out to be low complex, yet very flexible and fast. These overly positive results turned our interim solution into a proposal for realizing inter-component communication in future microkernel-based operating systems.