18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
11:42 p.m.
Well, since we're on the subject and it's only the Cafe list, what is it that you find messy about Linux that you would want to be solved by some hypothetical Haskell OS?
The hypothetical Haskell OS, especially if it were targeted toward 64 bit machines, could keep processes from messing with each other by way of language based security, and run them all in a single memory space. (The first system to do this, I believe, was the MULTIPOP timesharing system, but there are other precedents, too.) This would eliminate or simplify lots of context switches and buffer copies and memory management and other nastiness that now goes into kernels. /jaap