[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[John Reagan]

On Monday, September 27, 2021 at 1:34:19 PM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> 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 . . . 
> 
> -- 
> 
> -- Rob
BASIC runs through the GEM optimizer on Alpha and Itanium just like any other compiler.   Of course when you have an RTL every 20 instructions or so, there is only so much code motions that the compiler can perform.