[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/15/2018 12:08 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 10:06:51 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
>>
>> The web may be prolific, but it is anything but accurate.
>>
>
> Ding, ding, ding.  We have a winner!
>
> For the surveys we've received for possible V9 x86 early adopters/testers, Pascal has been high on the list.  The spread of OpenVMS languages is not what the rest of the world expects.
>
> And I've already hooked the Pascal frontend to our GEM-to-LLVM converter and have generated code.  We've been debugging some issues with Pascal SETs as that uses GEM datatypes that neither BLISS or C has pushed on so far.  Of course, I can't really execute anything yet.  (I could hack up a Linux testbench since we used to have a libpas.so on Tru64 that would probably work but by the time I get it working, I won't need it)
>

I seem to sense some excitement at VSI.  This may be good, and a welcome 
surprise may be coming shortly.

:-)

Now John, to get serious, when are you going to fix that despicable 
problem in Basic, you know, the horrible performance when returning from 
subprograms?

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