Performance of microkernel vs monolithic kernel. As is always the answer (or at least the preface) to performance-related questions: know your problem domain, run comparative benchmarks, and remember what premature optimization is.
A summary of the difference between contactors, motor starters, relays and circuit breakers. Switches, circuit breakers, and contactors are used to control what parts of an electrical system are energized or de-energized. Fuses are used to protect the electrical system when something goes wrong, and can isolate the faulted parts from the normal parts.
A breaker is a breaker and does much the same thing no matter what system it is used on. The differences then are with the bus, generator and field relay. A generator supplies electrical power to a bus or buses, Buses supply power to relays and other system. Source(s): FE A&P.