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>>>>> "Horst" == Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes: >> The only one is that performance would suffer because of use of >> higher level language than C or Assembler. Horst> Because the performance and size of kernel code is _critical_, Horst> maybe? Because much of the kernel code has been carefully Horst> tuned for maximum performance perhaps? >> There is a reason people use languages like PERL, Java and so on. Horst> And there are solid reasons for _not_ writing operating system Horst> kernels in them too... Hey, why not just port Xemacs to run on the bare metal. That way you get a lisp interpreter `for free'. :-) -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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