Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262625AbUDEWF1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:05:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263484AbUDEWE6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:04:58 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:26373 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262625AbUDEWE3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:04:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4071DCC3.9090106@techsource.com> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:25:07 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smoogen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel stack challenge References: <20040405205412.60071.qmail@web40504.mail.yahoo.com> <4071CF6E.4030104@techsource.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1023 Lines: 33 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? - 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/