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It's not a problem. The main problem is the assembly code. There is no way to inline it in JS code. After boot time system should make some things like A20, enable paging/protected and long mode, build GDT/IDT.



Right, but my reply to the parent was that Node isn't a performance improvement over C because it has async, when the async part is written in C. JS popularity has led to some wild claims. Never thought I'd live to see the day someone proposed a JS runtime would be more performant than C for writing operating systems.




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