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1. yason+W3[view] [source] 2010-07-07 20:03:40
>>raheem+(OP)
Writing this in C would be how much slower? Not much.

Modern bloat comes from the software footprint, not so much about performance gains anymore. Compare the UI of MenuetOS with the latest GTK and the 100 shared libraries involved.

It's not so much that C would be slow but that with C and high-level languages it's very easy to do lots of the wrong kind of work.

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2. moomba+a4[view] [source] 2010-07-07 20:08:31
>>yason+W3
I remember when I was taking an assembly class in college we always joked about how ridiculous it would be to write an OS in assembly. I'm surprised someone actually did it.

C is so close to assembly that these seems quite unnecessary. Although I do agree with one of the developer's points that Assembly has a kind of beauty about it.

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