Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263686AbUDGOhH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:37:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263684AbUDGOhH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:37:07 -0400 Received: from smtp103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.222]:46715 "HELO smtp103.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263686AbUDGOhC (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:37:02 -0400 Message-ID: <40741208.8080603@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:36:56 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Sean Neakums , Mohamed Aslan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Rewrite Kernel References: <20040407125406.209FC39834A@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> <6un05oszfx.fsf@zork.zork.net> 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: 1026 Lines: 34 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Sean Neakums wrote: > > >>"Mohamed Aslan" writes: >> >> >>>i wanna to rewrite a version of linux kernel from scratch in assembly for intel 386+ fo speed and a libc also in assembly for speed >>>what do u think guys >> >>Why not just write a program to translate 'C' code into assembly? >> > > > It's called a compiler and we already have several versions, none > optimum. > Compilers probably will never be optimum. One has to choose either to live with that or start "rewriting the kernel from scratch for intel 386+" and so forth. We all know what is appropriate on this list, so can the interested parties - not me - please take this thread off this list? (directed at nobody in particular) Thanks - 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/