Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: Rewrite Kernel | Date | Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:58:23 +0300 |
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On Saturday 10 April 2004 22:57, J. Ryan Earl wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >>I doubt you would be capable of generating assembly that would be any > >>faster than gcc, and you would inherit all the accidental difficulties > >>that come with engineering software at a lower-level. > > > >No, writing 'better than gcc' assembly is easy, gcc is far from stellar > >in this regard. But it's painfully slow and non-portable. > > How can "painfully slow and non-portable" be better? You mean faster?
*writing* asm code is painfully slow and code is not portable. That's why no sane person will write kernel in asm. -- vda
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