From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:02:21 +0100 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d04138a25de70ad04f8b6aa20 Subject: Re: [9fans] [GSOC] fast kernel compile Topicbox-Message-UUID: deae970e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --f46d04138a25de70ad04f8b6aa20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 6 May 2014 03:19, Charles Forsyth wrote: > the kernel source is less than the size of their include files 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") is in user space or across a network in Plan 9. of course, that's balanced by browsers now easily rivalling the kernels you mention for complexity and certainly size, with their brutalist programming architectures. --f46d04138a25de70ad04f8b6aa20 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --f46d04138a25de70ad04f8b6aa20--