On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/05/2014 12:46 AM, Antti Heikkinen wrote: >> To Dear Perl and LINUX kernel development community: >> >> My propose to you at your list: is possible to write operate system >> in PERL? I am student in university, looked for interest project >> to conclude my study on LINUX kernel. >> >> This semester, I take beginner PERL course and learn power of >> procedural language. I automate many daily task with use of it. >> Very impressive ability to make many thing work, interpret or can >> compile also. >> >> Also about LINUX, I talk to much fellow students and professors, >> and take a operate system course use FreeBSD and LINUX. FreeBSD >> okay, but they say LINUX kernel is too big and bloat, run poor with >> too many developer. And too much quick decision from leader with >> ego is too big and bloat too, kekeke. >> >> LINUX kernel can perform more good if written in not C and C++ but >> Perl? Just certain portion of LINUX kernel to rewrite? For >> instant, schedule or support of multithread? If so, should use >> Perl5 or Perl6, focus to x86 or x86-64? Can you want to join me >> this my project? But to hear your expertise. > No offense, but anyone who thinks that Perl (or any other interpreted > language except Lua) code will run faster than C is rather out of touch. > C code doesn't have any of the translation overhead that interpreted > languages do. Perl is an extremely high level language, and thus suffers > from this even more (although it has been getting better about this in > recent years). The only reason in fact that Lua manages to do almost as > well as native machine code compiled from C is that it uses a very > simple VM that is very similar in many respects to most modern processors. >> Just FYI, ktap is for "lua in Linux kernel". :) The lua VM is pretty simple and the instruction could translate to machine code easily, the cool thing is luajit project already proved this.
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