extreme mem usage under amd64 arch ?

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sat, 2006-Apr-08 12:21:46 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > I suspect a python kernel would be painfully slow.......
>
>Certainly.  I wasn't implying that Python would be well-
>suited to write an OS kernel in.  Unless someone builds
>a processor that executes Python bytecode natively.

Squeak (a smalltalk dialect) has its kernel written in a subset of
squeak which can be either interpreted or compiled into assembler.
The former maintains the development/testing advantages of an
interpreter and the latter makes it run at a decent speed.  You may be
able to do the same with Python.  Alternatively, JIT techniques have
received an enormous amount of effort over the past decade (thanks to
Java) and a JIT Python may be reasonable.

>   Oliver  (right now busy writing a boot manager in assembler)

Not Python?? :-)

-- 
Peter Jeremy