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From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 97 23:39:01 +0300
Subject: Re: source code
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nuqneH,

> From: "Rafa Gawenda" <rgawenda AT pobox DOT com>
> To: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
> Cc: "opendos AT delorie DOT com" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 97 10:45:25 -0200
> Subject: Re: source code

[dd]

> > > assemblers.  Oh, and a partridge in a pear tree...
> > > (roughly taken from the FAQ.)  IMHO there is TOO MUCH ASM in the
> > > tree.
> >
> >     Kernel must be total in the ASM, or you lost efficiency. B-|
>
> Perhaps someone could read in your words either that Linux isn't efficient (do you know some kernel better than that one) or even worse, that Linus should rewrite it in ASM (-:

It is a different can of worms - and yes,it isn't as efficient as, say,
Real/32 is.
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