"Paul Rubin" <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Roose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are you actually going to answer any of my questions? Let's see > > this "JavaScript task scheduler" you have written! > > I wrote it at a company and can't release it. It ran inside a > browser. There was nothing terribly amazing about it. Obviously the > tasks it scheduled were not kernel tasks. Do you know how Stackless > Python (with continuations) used to work? That had task switching, > but those were not kernel tasks either.
Well, then of course you know I have to say: An OS does not run inside a browser. There's a sentence I never thought I'd utter in my lifetime. So that is an irrelevant example, since it obviously isn't a task scheduler in the context of this thread. Anyway, this argument is going nowhere... I will admit that people have pointed out things here that are interesting like the attempts to embed Python in a kernel. But the point was that the OP was looking for an easier way to write an OS, and thought that might be to do it in Python, and I think I gave some good guidance away from that direction. That is mostly what I care about. These other arguments are academic, and of course I am not trying to stop anyone from trying anything. When I we see real working example, then we will all have a better idea of what the problems are, and how much of it can realistically be implemented in an interpreted language. Frankly I don't think that will come for about 10 years if ever, but hey prove me wrong. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
