Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264092AbUDGE3y (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:29:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264094AbUDGE3y (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:29:54 -0400 Received: from mail017.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.168]:13976 "EHLO mail017.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264092AbUDGE3x (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:29:53 -0400 From: Peter Chubb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16499.33689.920494.448577@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:29:13 +1000 To: Horst von Brand Cc: Sergiy Lozovsky , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel stack challenge In-Reply-To: <58907794@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 15) "Security Through Obscurity" XEmacs Lucid Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v04.18. X-Face: GgFg(Z>fx((4\32hvXq<)|jndSniCH~~$D)Ka:P@e@JR1P%Vr}EwUdfwf-4j\rUs#JR{'h# !]])6%Jh~b$VA|ALhnpPiHu[-x~@<"@Iv&|%R)Fq[[,(&Z'O)Q)xCqe1\M[F8#9l8~}#u$S$Rm`S9% \'T@`:&8>Sb*c5d'=eDYI&GF`+t[LfDH="MP5rwOO]w>ALi7'=QJHz&y&C&TE_3j! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 26 >>>>> "Horst" == Horst von Brand writes: >> The only one is that performance would suffer because of use of >> higher level language than C or Assembler. Horst> Because the performance and size of kernel code is _critical_, Horst> maybe? Because much of the kernel code has been carefully Horst> tuned for maximum performance perhaps? >> There is a reason people use languages like PERL, Java and so on. Horst> And there are solid reasons for _not_ writing operating system Horst> kernels in them too... Hey, why not just port Xemacs to run on the bare metal. That way you get a lisp interpreter `for free'. :-) -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* - 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/