On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:37:14PM +0100, P Witte wrote: > > Richard Zidlicky writes: > > > I don't see rewriting parts of the OS as useful, only OS part where > > emulators spend noticeable time are screen drivers. I think the gain > > in speed is not worth the added effort and risk of subtle bugs - the > > most screen-demanding applications will use their own assembler code > > called through sd.extop and we can't rewrite that. > > Of course you can! Theres nothing to stop you from adding native code that > is called from inside sd.extop (iow.xtop in SMSQ parlance).
well yes, sure you can. There is also nothing to stop you from rewriting every single QDOS application to x86 assembler code. My point was that this code doesn't belong into SMSQ, it is the application. Richard
