Huawei has unveiled a self-developed operating system called the HarmonyOS NEXT. At the development event, the CEO described the OS as fully independent with a full-stack AI framework. The CEO has also claimed that the Harmony kernel is three times more efficient than Linux.
I’m skeptical. “Efficiency” could mean a lot of different things, even the the context of memory management. And it’s a weird metric to put forward since as far as I know, RAM is not really what’s holding us back at the moment.
I’m all for experimenting with new OS designs, but I think even Google just gave up their best try at being better than Linux, so I guess it’s not impossible that Huawei has done it, but I think not likely.
But it is the easiest way to “outperform the Linux kernel”. You’ll always have to trade memory for features, since they don’t have the developer pool to support features well, they’ll be able to optimize memory usage no problemo. Now you get to load it onto phones under the pretense that it’s “more efficient”, then voila, you have practically infinite embedded tracker potential.
In terms of computation speed, RAM actually is the thing holding us back. It used to take a few clock cycles to read a value from memory. Now it takes 100. CPU got a lot more quicker than RAM did.