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Isn't this similar to Windows wanting to rebuild their entire userland on top of .NET?
by jarjoura 13y ago
Isn't this similar to Windows wanting to rebuild their entire userland on top of .NET?
- tedunangst 13y agoI would say, no, not at all. Rewriting your entire userland is not similar to adding a script interpreter to be used for writing kernel extensions.
- pjmlp 13y agoActually the best example is OS/400 mainframe system from IBM. The kernel is a mixture of Assembly, C++ and Modula-2, with a JIT. All user space code compiles to bytecode. The kernel JIT compiles the applications on first execution. Afterwards the application is validated against generated native code, and re-JITed again if the bytecode has changed between executions. So Microsoft's attempt was actually nothing new.