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Hmmm
so since you are familiar with the complexities in assembly
programming, what do you say about 1GB of ASM?

It is simply impossible. IBM was trying to finish its infamous
OS/360 back in the late '60s/early '70s. They were
programming this OS in ibm assembly. Instead of these
people finishing an OS, a very well know book came out to
tell the story of their suffereings ('The Mythical Man Month')

So I really doubt that there is so much asm in the kernel.
Some low level functions (locking, scheduling, dev. drivers)
maybe.

-m
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