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SubjectRe: kernel stack challenge


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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