From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 19:26:38 GMT
In article <C9E4J4.Fsw.1@cs.cmu.edu> cmaeda+@cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes:
>And to give another one credit: I believe that the original Oberon system
>(windowing OS, OO-variant of Modula-2-compiler...) was able to recompile
>itself in the matter of a few seconds. (CPU NS32032 or similar).
>Of course this is a minimalistic working environment, nedding only a few
>100k in toto. (If I remember right, about 250k, including compiler,
>editor and loader). BTW, one of the persons to credit is Niklaus Wirth,
>and I've forgotten the name of the other one.
What a breakthrough! If you want your kernel to compile twice as
fast, use a compiler that's twice as dumb or leave out half the
functionality. You guys should write a paper for usenix.
I believe this is called the "New Jersey style" of programming. This
is as opposed to the "Cambridge style". I wonder how long it takes to
compile Plan 9 on a 386 laptop?
-david