> Unless of course, you merely use this question as a ruse to elicit a discussion about low-level systems programming. Didn't OP already imply that the point o

> Unless of course, you merely use this question as a ruse to elicit a discussion about low-level systems programming. Didn't OP already imply that the point of the question was not as much to get a specific answer, but to probe whether or not the interviewee knows about all the factors that need to be considered?