From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 15:43:29 +0800 From: "Rogelio Serrano" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc In-Reply-To: <463D648C.4040703@conducive.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <54fc0f1102d30ae5933e78e2e391032f@proxima.alt.za> <463D648C.4040703@conducive.org> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c40db7a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/6/07, W B Hacker wrote: > Rogelio Serrano wrote: > > On 5/6/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > >> > >> this absolutist argument that c is teh bomb. asm suks is silly. it's > >> like > >> arguing bicycles and ferraris. which one you need (and which one gets > >> you there faster) depends on what you're doing. > >> > > > > exactly. > > > > assembler is there because it is needed. if you are writing or porting > > a compiler and you dont have an assembler you will end up writing one > > anyway. > > > ... OR machine-coding the 'primitives' for your own virtual-machine to obviate > the need for having to worry about it at all. > i see. theres a good idea there somewhere. some sort of vm... highly optimised. well it can be done. but to abstract all hardware, not possible. it will be very complicated and dog slow.