Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756722AbXLBTBW (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:01:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754350AbXLBTBO (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:01:14 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:57693 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752702AbXLBTBN (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:01:13 -0500 To: Avi Kivity Cc: Kyle Moffett , Lennart Sorensen , Ben Crowhurst , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C From: Andi Kleen References: <474EAD18.6040408@stellatravel.co.uk> <20071130143445.GA2310@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <53ADBDBF-9B65-441E-B867-D68DE48ABD64@mac.com> <4751BE0D.3050609@argo.co.il> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:01:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4751BE0D.3050609@argo.co.il> (Avi Kivity's message of "Sat\, 01 Dec 2007 22\:03\:25 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 619 Lines: 15 Avi Kivity writes: > > [I really doubt there are that many of these; syscall > entry/dispatch/exit, interrupt dispatch, context switch, what else?] Networking, block IO, page fault, ... But only the fast paths in these cases. A lot of the kernel is slow path code and could probably be written even in an interpreted language without much trouble. -Andi -- 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/