[Info-vax] Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming

[Bob Koehler]

In article <lujtpg$4p4$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> I wish I could get my hands on that experiment. I think that today it 
> would be possible to get a native BLISS compiler running under RSX, and 
> with reasonable capacity.

   I'd not be so sure.  Overlays may add more flexibility to the
   address space, but they also add overhead, which uses up address
   space.  Memory resident overlays are faster than disk resident
   overlays, but they still add overhead.