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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:21:59 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000113102159.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200001122113.NAA58059@rah.star-gate.com>

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On 12-Jan-00 Amancio Hasty wrote:
>  I agree with Warner now if people can come up with other uses for
>  an "ACPI" language then I guess is okay ;however, for just restoring
>  vga graphic's state I think that I would find it hard to justify
>  bolting
>  an interpreter in the kernel . 

I think that depends entirely on how heavy the interpreter...

If you have a language which is basically 'machine code' its fairly
easy to write an interpreter..

(Especially if you had a tool 'compile' it before it was loaded into
the kernel)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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