Re: kernel stack challenge

From: Timothy Miller
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 17:12:16 EST




Stephen Smoogen wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Timothy Miller wrote:


Sergiy Lozovsky wrote:



All LISP errors are incapsulated within LISP VM.



A LISP VM is a big, giant, bloated.... *CHOKE* *COUGH* *SPUTTER* *SUFFOCATE* ... thing which SHOULD NEVER be in the kernel.


Ah your thinking of the days when 1 meg of memory was a lot and LISP was considered huge.. With 4 gigs of memory today, it shouldnt be a problem :). Actually a LISP vm can fit into a small amount of memory depending on what you want it to do...

People complained about having Athlon-specific fixes in all x86 kernels because of the extra few hundred bytes it would waste for a Pentium kernel.

What makes you think people would accept a LISP interpreter?

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