From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200105011730.NAA24756@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] native limbo
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIBIIHKHEGDBPHBDOKEGFCAAA.kiwane@dream.com>
Cc: 
Date: Tue,  1 May 2001 13:30:04 -0400
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In article <LPBBIBIIHKHEGDBPHBDOKEGFCAAA.kiwane@dream.com> you write:
>2) a dis interpreter and plan9 native modules
>
>Similar to 1), but modules and apps in dis binary. Thanks to Vita Nuova,
>there already is a limbo-to-dis compiler on plan9 (right? don't know how
>inferno/emu-dependent it is, though). You'd invoke a dis interpreter,
>which would provide gc, syscall i/f and whatnot, to execute limbo apps.

Hmm, not to be contrary, but isn't this basically what emu does
already?  It provides a dis interpreter, plus modules which map native
limbo services into native Plan 9 services (eg, a call to Sys->open()
gets mapped into open(2)).  Maybe I'm missing something.

	- Dan C.

(ps- I think that a native limbo compiler would be sweet; but I too
fear that it would go the way Alef did.)