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- From: Chewy@cup.portal.com (Paul Frederick Snively)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: Are interpreters now as fast as compiled code used to be?
- Message-ID: <71813@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 09:30:47 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Guillermo Rozas wrote:
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- `If only "modern operating systems" (aka. Unix) only allowed us
- arbitrary control over our address space...'
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- You have to be a little careful when talking about what `Unix' does or does
- not do, as I'm sure that Mr. Rozas is aware. To name but one example, the
- Mach kernel _does_ give you arbitrary control over your address space if you
- are willing to write an external memory manager, a fact that was used to some
- effect in Carnegie-Mellon's Camelot and Avalon projects.
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- Paul Snively
- Chewy@cup.portal.com
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