Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:25:07 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: kernel stack challenge |
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Stephen Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote: > > >>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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