[Info-vax] Suggested DCL enhancement

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-11-04, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 11/4/2020 8:18 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2020-11-03, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm figuring there would be significant compute and other resource
>>> overhead for such things, along with significant development efforts.
>>>
>>
>> Why ?
>>
>> There's no run-time cost until you press the triggering character.
>
> There is no run-time until one powers up a system.  So what?
> There is no run-time cost until some application is invoked.
> Would you agree that using ^T causes some compute effort?
>

You were the one talking about overheads. There are no run-time overheads
worth measuring.

>> Once triggered, everything you need for the output is in the command
>> definition.
>
> That takes CPU cycles, and perhaps other things, which are then no 
> longer available to whatever job(s) the system is working on.
>

Seriously, David ???

Simon.

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