On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Eric Wertman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If an OS was to be written in Python and the hardware optimized for >>> it, what changes would be made to the hardware to accomodate Python >>> strenghs and weaknesses? > > > I'm no expert, but this would seem like a good example of something > that python wasn't good for. I have always wondered, though, what a > Linux kernel module would look like that had a python (or java, or > whatever) interpreter running low-level, so the higher level > components on the operating system could be implemented in an > interpreted language. Is there any benefit to something like that? > Or is that crap too? Again, I'm no expert. >
The closest I can think of to that is Singularity, Microsoft's research OS written in .NET (well, C# specifically I guess). I think their intent was more to shrink the size of the trusted computing base though and then make all of the actual OS services and such managed code. http://research.microsoft.com/os/Singularity/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
