Re: LINUX is obsolete
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Re: LINUX is obsolete
In article <1992Feb08.091339.16121@donau.et.tudelft.nl> wolff@neuron.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
>Anyway, anybody have an opinion about the fact that code for printf
>is included three times in the Minix OS when it runs (once in the
>kernel, MM and FS)
Back in the yore days, this might have been a problem. I remember when
every program, even wordprocessors, had to be written in assembler to
squeeze them down to the smallest size possible for a 64K system. One
of the reasons WordPerfect is such a mess today is that it was written
in assembler instead of C.
Now, even the small systems which Minix runs have at least 640K, so a
few wasted bytes are not so much of a problem.
Why not write Linux in 80386 assembler? It would be smaller and even
faster. And don't forget to code inline as much as possible, to avoid
the crippling overhead of function calls. And leave out comments,
because they waste disk space.
David
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David Megginson meggin@epas.utoronto.ca
Centre for Medieval Studies david@doe.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto 39 Queen's Park Cr. E.
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