From: "J. Ryan Earl" <heretic@clanhk.org>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: Mohamed Aslan <mkernel@linuxmail.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rewrite Kernel
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:57:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <407851AB.2020409@clanhk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404102021.36745.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>>I doubt you would be capable of generating assembly that would be any
>>faster than gcc, and you would inherit all the accidental difficulties
>>that come with engineering software at a lower-level.
>>
>>
>
>No, writing 'better than gcc' assembly is easy, gcc is far from stellar
>in this regard. But it's painfully slow and non-portable.
>
>
How can "painfully slow and non-portable" be better? You mean faster?
Doesn't change the fact that I doubt he could write faster assembly. By
the time he got done doing it in assembly, gcc 5 would probably be out
generating much faster binaries, not to mention new major stable kernel
revisions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-10 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-07 12:54 Rewrite Kernel Mohamed Aslan
2004-04-07 12:57 ` viro
2004-04-07 12:59 ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-04-07 13:08 ` John Bradford
2004-04-07 13:13 ` Sean Neakums
2004-04-07 13:46 ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-04-07 13:58 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-07 14:36 ` Nick Piggin
2004-04-07 18:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-04-07 13:22 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-04-07 13:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-07 14:02 ` Erik Mouw
2004-04-07 14:04 ` Trent Lloyd
2004-04-07 14:27 ` Redeeman
2004-04-07 14:55 ` John Bradford
2004-04-07 15:05 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-04-07 15:17 ` John Bradford
2004-04-07 15:20 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2004-04-07 15:21 ` John Bradford
2004-04-07 17:21 ` Redeeman
2004-04-07 18:47 ` Paulo Marques
2004-04-07 18:12 ` Aaron Smith
2004-04-07 19:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-04-07 23:03 ` David B. Stevens
2004-04-08 10:34 ` David Weinehall
2004-04-07 14:57 ` Rob Couto
2004-04-13 14:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-04-07 16:00 ` Brian Pawlowski
2004-04-10 16:59 ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-04-10 17:21 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-04-10 19:57 ` J. Ryan Earl [this message]
2004-04-11 16:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-07 13:05 Mohamed Aslan
2004-04-07 17:27 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-04-24 13:24 Mohamed Aslan
2004-04-24 15:10 ` billy rose
2004-04-24 15:45 ` David B. Stevens
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