[plug] Chat

David Buddrige buddrige at q-net.net.au
Sat Feb 13 11:34:20 WST 1999


Tamara Thompson wrote:

> That's very interesting, I hadn't realized the kernel was written in low level assembly language.  I don't why I thought C.

My completely un-informed understanding is that there's a bunch of the absolute base-kernel that is written with in-line asm
for performance reasons, but  that as soon as you get out beyond a fairly narrow level beyond the kernel it's all pure C....
is this the correct understanding?

cheers

Dave.




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