Roose wrote:
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It's a difference of degree, but an important difference. I haven't looked at Linux or Windows NT source, but my guess is the assembly used is just small functions for accessing special CPU instructions for atomicity, context switching, and the like.
I KNOW they don't have huge amounts of assembly simply because they run on
different architectures.
But are you really going to write a virtual memory system in Python? Are
you going to write a file system, and a task scheduler in Python? Are you
going to have people write device drivers in Python?
Cleese!!
I'm not saying it can't be done, but it would be a poor engineering decision, and the rationale thus far seems to be "Python is cool, I like OSes, let's write a whole OS in Python". If that's not the case then let me know what your rationale is.
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