>> there's nothing like eight full cores to help shake out race
>> conditions when the time does come to break down the big monolithic
>> kernel...
> You can already simulate 8+ cores with qemu you know :)

Perhaps, but it is *hard* to simulate all the simultaneity races and
suchlike that will break careless locking.  You almost have to go to
simulating at the clock-cycle level.

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