[Info-vax] Real time performance, was: Re: VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei skrev den 2015-06-07 20:25:
> On 15-06-07 08:09, Simon Clubley wrote:
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>> You have made this mistake before JF, so once again:
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>> Real time does not mean fast; it means a guaranteed bounded response time.
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> The context of this was making primitive VMS boot as a guest of a VM to
> help VSI engineers get it to boot to the DIR command.
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> We're not talking about getting VMS to run the space shuttle control
> system during a launch under a VM that also runs Windows with users
> playing video games.
>
> In fact, when you debug primitive code, you probably want it to run very
> slowly and (maybe) have the ability to stop it midway so debugging tools
> can be used to look at memory etc,
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No need to "run slowly" with this complex environments.
You use the tools available in the debug tools such as
breakpoints and "register/variable watch" and so on.