[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 9/27/2021 1:04 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/27/2021 12:23 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> Looks as if x86 will be useless, for me, for more than a year ..
> 
> 9.2 are expected out in April and are considered production ready.
> So only a half year.
> 
> *IF* you are willing to cross compile your Basic code on Itanium.
> 
> But I fear that at least some people will question the "production
> ready" status when native compilers are not available. That is
> not a real issue (it is common for some types of system to
> use cross compile), but it could very well be a perceived like
> that.
  
For Basic, which is not optimizable, the quality of the generated code
likely will not change from cross-compiled to natively compiled.

John will step in and correct me if I'm wrong . . .

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                       -- Rob