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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by dhhwrongagain on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:54AM (#22875763)
All of the performance wins you’re referencing come from vectorization, you typically can’t vectorize OS code since it isn’t ALU bound, which makes your point moot.
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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by jbk on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:59AM (#22875800)
> you typically can’t vectorize OS code since it isn’t ALU bound

The answer and parent were in no way only talking about OS.

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Re:KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly... by dhhwrongagain on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:12AM (#22875854)
The parent was definitely talking about the applicability of using assembly in the context of this project. Vectorization is irrelevant here.
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