Re:Next steps for Rust in the kernel
by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:10AM
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> It will teach you how a PDP-11 thinks, at best. The cache hierarchy and speculative execution are completely hidden at the level of C, to start with.
And error recovery (that is fucking crazy on x86), and wide instructions, and I/O, and stack management, and... I am not sure C is even a good approximation for the PDP-11.
And error recovery (that is fucking crazy on x86), and wide instructions, and I/O, and stack management, and... I am not sure C is even a good approximation for the PDP-11.