Re: kernel stack challenge

[Timothy Miller]

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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