Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 20:43:42 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: extreme mem usage under amd64 arch ? Message-ID: <20060408104342.GA720@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200604081021.k38ALkR1094733@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <2fd864e0604072236p2ee54649ld9d328f429005d6a@mail.gmail.com> <200604081021.k38ALkR1094733@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Sat, 2006-Apr-08 12:21:46 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I suspect a python kernel would be painfully slow....... > >Certainly. I wasn't implying that Python would be well- >suited to write an OS kernel in. Unless someone builds >a processor that executes Python bytecode natively. Squeak (a smalltalk dialect) has its kernel written in a subset of squeak which can be either interpreted or compiled into assembler. The former maintains the development/testing advantages of an interpreter and the latter makes it run at a decent speed. You may be able to do the same with Python. Alternatively, JIT techniques have received an enormous amount of effort over the past decade (thanks to Java) and a JIT Python may be reasonable. > Oliver (right now busy writing a boot manager in assembler) Not Python?? :-) -- Peter Jeremy
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