On Jan 4, 2025, at 9:35 AM, Stuart Morrow <morrow.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This has been a very interesting discussion, thanks all. My offer >> remains: if anyone wants to revive NIX, I am happy to help. > > Am I the only one who sees that the Fastcall stuff would be good for > bringing some devices out of the kernel (that are devs only for > performance reasons)? > > And then, closer to what Fastcall was actually for (fossil and > venti>disk), you also have ??fs>nusb/disk>disk, which could always do > with a speedup.
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