Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
at one time there was an experiment to make the kernel compilable with a C++ compiler, without actually using any C++ features. The result: they lost about 10% in speed. That was enough to put the kernel developers off taking the experiment any further.
FWIW, certain parts of the Darwin kernel are written in a carefully-selected subset of C++. So Apple evidently think that it makes sense to use some C++ in a Unix kernel under some circumstances. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
