Re: Rewrite Kernel

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Saturday 10 April 2004 22:57, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
> 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?

*writing* asm code is painfully slow and code is not portable.
That's why no sane person will write kernel in asm.
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vda

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