Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
by adrianN on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:59AM
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C also doesn't have low level access to the hardware. The interesting bits of the OS are written in assembly.
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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
by danellis on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @02:03PM
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I think the only bit that really needs to be in assembly is the context switch, but even that can be embedded in the C (which you might consider cheating, but isn't even an option in JavaScript).