On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It seems that you're doing the same thing in both cases, except you're
> > now extending it to include other random functionality, which means
> > other things than syslets are suddenly affected.
> >
> > syslets are arguably a little bit different, since what you're
> > effectively doing there is running a miniature interpreted language in
> > kernel space. A higher startup overhead should be acceptable, since
> > you're amortizing it over a larger number of calls. Extending that
> > mechanism suddenly means you HAVE to use that interpreted language
> > message mechanism to access certain system calls, which really does
> > not seem like a good thing neither for performance nor for encouraging
> > sane design of interfaces.
>
> whether that interpreted syslet language survives is still an open
> question - it was extremely ugly when i wrote the first version of it
> and it only got uglier since then :-)
Aha! You admitted it finally :)
- Davide
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