[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Alpha V8.4-2L1 Layered Product Subset Available

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-12 kl. 15:48, skrev johnson.eric at gmail.com:
> On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 7:04:48 PM UTC-4, clair... at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> 
>> We did not create special versions of the compilers. We just did a
>> build with C, MACRO, and BLISS using the architecture-specific switches.
>> This was for the entire operating system build, not just selected pieces.
> 
> Does a similar opportunity exist with the Itanium build of VMS?
> 

Has Itanium added performance features in the later versions? That is,
throught new instructions or other means that the compiler can use?

Oracle Rdb has for long been shipped in two versions, one "pre-EV56"
and one "EV56 and later". From the Rdb 7.3 release (in March 2011)
the "pre-EV56" kit was dropped altogether.

As I understand, the byte and word instructions come with the EV56
release, so in that regard, EV56 and EV6 would be similar (?).