Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:57:31 -0500 | From | "J. Ryan Earl" <> | Subject | Re: Rewrite Kernel |
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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?
Doesn't change the fact that I doubt he could write faster assembly. By the time he got done doing it in assembly, gcc 5 would probably be out generating much faster binaries, not to mention new major stable kernel revisions. - 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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