Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:01:12 +0100 |
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Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il> writes: > > [I really doubt there are that many of these; syscall > entry/dispatch/exit, interrupt dispatch, context switch, what else?]
Networking, block IO, page fault, ... But only the fast paths in these cases. A lot of the kernel is slow path code and could probably be written even in an interpreted language without much trouble.
-Andi
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