[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Craig A. Berry]

On 9/7/16 10:43 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 9/7/2016 7:57 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> On 9/7/16 1:51 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>>> The fact you are investigating MariaDB _and_ PostgreSQL is nice; but
>>> seeing Erlang on the list was a _major_ surprise. I wonder what is
>>> driving that ?
>>
>> All three of these ports have been underway since before VSI existed.
>> PostgreSQL is stalled waiting for fixes to SSIO, so that may be what
>
> SSIO isn't something we're looking at now.
>
> Yeah, we recognize its importance to the porting community, and
> we also understand that our priorities won't match up with the
> needs of everyone.

That was my understanding and I agree with the priority. While SSIO is
important for some use cases, they aren't the ones I've run into
personally. I would rather see a decent pipe() implementation in the CRTL.

SSIO will likely involve looking at how I/O is done in the CRTL more
generally and how it could be done better. For example, is $IO_PERFORM
used where it can be, or is everything still using $QIO or RMS?