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  On 09/12/2010 08:46 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>   1- Most (least abstract) specific code: a block of bytecode in the form
>      of a simplified, executable, kernel-checked x86 machine code block -
>      this is also the fastest form. [yes, this is actually possible.]
> Well... if we want to be a bit x86-entric.... can we just reuse ACPI
> interpretter?

I hope this was a joke, ACPI won the academy awards for ugliness, 
slowness, low performance, bad specification, non-generality, and 
probably five other things I forgot.  Stay away from it as much as you can.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function