From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:34:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3da5967e36031cd6dea25d2afe030208@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201405060838.s468c72Q018984@freefriends.org>
On Tue May 6 04:39:11 EDT 2014, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > also, quite a bit that is unaccountably still in other kernels ("because
> > Unix did it exactly that way in the 1970s on a PDP-11")
>
> I think that "unaccountably" is a bit harsh. There is A L O T of old
> Unix software that still just compiles and works out of the box on
> Linux, Solaris, *BSD. There is a lot of value to that, when what you
> care about is getting your work done (KTBR - Keep The Business Running).
my experience is the opposite. basic c library functions have been built
into the compiler, and the types have changed.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-06 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-06 2:13 yan cui
2014-05-06 2:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 2:35 ` yan cui
2014-05-06 2:48 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 8:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 8:38 ` arnold
2014-05-06 8:49 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 8:54 ` arnold
2014-05-06 13:34 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-05-06 9:39 ` tlaronde
2014-05-06 9:52 ` tlaronde
2014-05-06 10:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-05-06 13:35 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 15:24 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-05-06 15:48 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2014-05-06 15:53 ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-06 17:39 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-05-06 15:51 ` Anthony Sorace
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