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    Stephen Smoogen wrote:
    > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote:
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    >
    >>Sergiy Lozovsky wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>
    >>>All LISP errors are incapsulated within LISP VM.
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >>A LISP VM is a big, giant, bloated.... *CHOKE* *COUGH* *SPUTTER*
    >>*SUFFOCATE* ... thing which SHOULD NEVER be in the kernel.
    >
    >
    > Ah your thinking of the days when 1 meg of memory was a lot and LISP was
    > considered huge.. With 4 gigs of memory today, it shouldnt be a problem
    > :). Actually a LISP vm can fit into a small amount of memory depending
    > on what you want it to do...

    People complained about having Athlon-specific fixes in all x86 kernels
    because of the extra few hundred bytes it would waste for a Pentium kernel.

    What makes you think people would accept a LISP interpreter?

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