On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:55:07 GMT, ·········@hotmail.com
<·········@hotmail.com> concluded we would all be made wiser by
knowing that:
>We are planning on sinking a bytecode interpreter into the java
>kernel to experiment with the notion of writing device drivers in Java.
>I would like to know if anybody has done something like this (I cant
>imagine it has not been tried). If you know something about such
>an effort, I would be grateful if you could let me know so as to avoid
>the pain of having to start from scratch.
This has been proposed before; one substantial problem with the idea
is that a JVM does a fair bit of GCed memory allocation, and *that* is
the part of the process most likely to be either Rather Controversial
or Rather Problematic.
That being said, were you to get some GC support into the kernel, that
could get support from people that have the Cool Idea of, to some
degree, integrating Lisp in with the Linux kernel.
<http://www.intes.odessa.ua/vxe> VXE - Virtual eXecuting Environment
is doing such a thing, adding in security validation written in
Lisp,inserted into the kernel.
[Everything is deeply intertwingled.]
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