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

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People

• Cody Cutler (PhD)
• Prof. M. Frans Kaashoek
• Prof. Robert Morris