[Info-vax] VMS x86 performance ?

[Michael Moroney]

"Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:

>On 10/30/20 3:43 PM, IanD wrote:

>> The fact that it boots wickedly fast is also an indication is it
>> not?

>It's good news, but it may not mean what you think it means.  I believe
>they have done a lot of work on the boot path, so it's not necessarily
>the same code that is running on other architectures.

One big reason for the fast boot is the memory disk used, so that (other) boot drivers 
won't be needed.  Load a chunk of memory once very early and run the rest of the early
boot stuff from it.