Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262063AbUDJQ70 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:59:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262065AbUDJQ70 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:59:26 -0400 Received: from ns.clanhk.org ([69.93.101.154]:43187 "EHLO mail.clanhk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262063AbUDJQ70 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:59:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4078280B.5080604@clanhk.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:59:55 -0500 From: "J. Ryan Earl" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mohamed Aslan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Rewrite Kernel References: <20040407125406.209FC39834A@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20040407125406.209FC39834A@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> 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: 631 Lines: 16 Mohamed Aslan wrote: >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 > > I doubt you would be capable of generating assembly that would be any faster than gcc, and you would inherit all the accidental difficulties that come with engineering software at a lower-level. -ryan - 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/