A different kind of Walter? :-)

[Walter Bright]

David B. Held wrote:
> That being said, I think it would be *particularly* clever of you to use 
> your start-from-scratch kernel to explore new ideas in multi-processing 
> and massive multithreading, but this would imply having decent multi-CPU 
> hardware to play with.

I'd also like to see better operating system support for garbage 
collection - either making gc an operating system service, or providing 
hooks to the virtual memory subsystem so the gc can tell when pages are 
dirty.