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Message-ID: <p733aukyl8n.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:01:12 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...o.co.il>
Cc:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Ben Crowhurst <Ben.Crowhurst@...llatravel.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

Avi Kivity <avi@...o.co.il> writes:
>
> [I really doubt there are that many of these; syscall
> entry/dispatch/exit, interrupt dispatch, context switch, what else?]

Networking, block IO, page fault, ... But only the fast paths in these 
cases. A lot of the kernel is slow path code and could probably
be written even in an interpreted language without much trouble.

-Andi
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