Re: [Challangeos-developers]New team member

[Gregor M. <Gre...@gm...>]

Fernando Fernandes Neto wrote:
> 
> I'm interested in your ideas. What do you think about to rewrite the V2OS
> kernel, with our code,  "mixing" it with the actual ChallangeOS kernel ??
> 

I wanted to try out V2OS, but I found that I was unable to boot it on
any of my computers. So I haven't had a closer look at it yet. Perhaps
it is time to change it... 

But I don't like the idea of having too much assembly code in the
kernel. Assembly code can be surprisingly fast, but it is neither
portable nor easy to read. I'd accept assembly for the low level code,
but the higher level code should be in C to make it platform-independent
(well, just using C doesn't make such code portable, I know).

A good multikernel OS would IMHO provide a slow and portable kernel to
make the software run on an as many platforms as possible and
specialized kernels for the more common platforms to get the last bit of
performance out of them. Well, perhaps I should dream about that on
another occation... ;-)

Bye,
Gregor

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