From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 11:44: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3496637BB97 for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 11:44:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e48JEnC17489; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:14:49 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Scott Cc: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios , shannon stees , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: researching FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000508121449.A17425@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3916CF65.8BC7835A@tdnet.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU on Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:06:35PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 8 May 2000, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > > > shannon stees wrote: > > > What is the language in which FreeBSD is written? > > > > Are you serious? > > It's C. > * Scott [000508 11:40] wrote: > > This question and your answer makes me wonder. Are there no ASM > optimizations that have been made? ASM optimizations are done for some key kernel routines and C library routines as well as places where C can not reach low enough to provide the hardware/CPU twiddling needed for the job. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message