From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920802171343p323a2708m9f193ae24d2c14e5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:43:00 +0100 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions In-Reply-To: <5970ae4ea6d347c4922b94471553279a@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5970ae4ea6d347c4922b94471553279a@quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 58019ef4-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > so if you're running without the operating system or your application > is the operating system (embedded systems), virtual memory might > just get in the way. tlb hardware doesn't do its translation for free. Or if you have moved onto the greener pastures of Limbo... not having to worry about all this saves many headaches when you want to port Inferno to a new arch too. uriel