🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <41a2364a.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (billkatt) writes:
>Very good.  I shall now give you another lesson in being condescending.  But
>remember... you shall never be as good as I am.  The whole point of this
>thread is that there is no value in doing speed comparisons, because you will
>need all new applications to run under the new system.  Therefore, you might
>as well compare to DOS 3.3, because it doesn't support the same overhead.
>I am anxiously awaiting the new rewrite, even if it breaks all, as long as it
>is in an object oriented format.  Yes, it is doubtful that they will do a
>rewrite in Pascal, since the system is currently written in Assembly
>language, and RISC chips are optimized for C.

This is very interesting.  I don't have the strongest background in
hardware architecture, but, could you please explain how a processor
could be optimized for a specific high level language?

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.