[Info-vax] VMS x86 performance ?

[Michael Moroney]

IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes:

>It's been a while since this topic was first aired and the response at the time was "it 
>is too early to tell"

>This was quite some time ago now

>I don't expect benchmarks as such but I would have thought we have a general idea as to 
>how it performs compared to Itanium or Alpha by now?

>Ballpark figures?

>10%, 20%, 50%, Rabbit on crack? Still too early to tell?

>*Yes, I'm talking about a VM environment since that will probably be the normal 
>deployment environment

Still too early to tell.  The compilers have optimization off and frankly, the
generated code is hideous.

Despite that, boots are wicked fast.