[Info-vax] Updated VMS Roadmap
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Fri Jan 8 22:43:53 EST 2010
On 08-01-2010 08:10, John Reagan wrote:
> "Guy Peleg"<makleeengineering at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> You might want to consider relinking your application using the
>> V8.3-1H1
>> Linker. On Itanium the linker generates some code and this code
>> generation
>> has been improved with the 8.3-1H1 linker (you can also use the
>> 8.3-1H1 linker
>> on 8.3).
>
> Actually, the code generated by the linker is unchanged. What has changed
> is that the linker is more efficient on re-using code it has already
> generated. It packs it into the images better. So you will get SMALLER
> .EXE files but the performance will be exactly the same (well, faster image
> activation due to fewer disk I/Os and perhaps better fit inside the
> instruction cache).
Let me reveal my I64 ignorance - what code is the linker
generating?
Arne
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