Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752212AbaAFBpn (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:45:43 -0500 Received: from mail-qe0-f48.google.com ([209.85.128.48]:51904 "EHLO mail-qe0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751718AbaAFBpm (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:45:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <52C99AE5.6040209@gmail.com> References: <52C99AE5.6040209@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:45:41 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Propose for LINUX kernel and PERL From: Jovi Zhangwei To: Austin S Hemmelgarn Cc: Antti Heikkinen , LKML , advocacy@perl.org, beginners@perl.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 01/05/2014 12:46 AM, Antti Heikkinen wrote: >> To Dear Perl and LINUX kernel development community: >> >> My propose to you at your list: is possible to write operate system >> in PERL? I am student in university, looked for interest project >> to conclude my study on LINUX kernel. >> >> This semester, I take beginner PERL course and learn power of >> procedural language. I automate many daily task with use of it. >> Very impressive ability to make many thing work, interpret or can >> compile also. >> >> Also about LINUX, I talk to much fellow students and professors, >> and take a operate system course use FreeBSD and LINUX. FreeBSD >> okay, but they say LINUX kernel is too big and bloat, run poor with >> too many developer. And too much quick decision from leader with >> ego is too big and bloat too, kekeke. >> >> LINUX kernel can perform more good if written in not C and C++ but >> Perl? Just certain portion of LINUX kernel to rewrite? For >> instant, schedule or support of multithread? If so, should use >> Perl5 or Perl6, focus to x86 or x86-64? Can you want to join me >> this my project? But to hear your expertise. > No offense, but anyone who thinks that Perl (or any other interpreted > language except Lua) code will run faster than C is rather out of touch. > C code doesn't have any of the translation overhead that interpreted > languages do. Perl is an extremely high level language, and thus suffers > from this even more (although it has been getting better about this in > recent years). The only reason in fact that Lua manages to do almost as > well as native machine code compiled from C is that it uses a very > simple VM that is very similar in many respects to most modern processors. >> Just FYI, ktap is for "lua in Linux kernel". :) The lua VM is pretty simple and the instruction could translate to machine code easily, the cool thing is luajit project already proved this. Thanks, Jovi -- 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/