[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/14/2022 4:27 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 00:24 -0400, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> Hey, it's John, Pascal is probably already working ...
>>> I have not tried to build a native Pascal yet.  Perhaps I should
>>> just to screw with the estimates, eh?
>>
>> That would be fun ..
> 
> Yes, I believe Pascal's one of the easiest languages to build a
> compiler for. TurboPascal was fantastic for what it did back in its
> day.

TP was very fast and used few resources. Probably easy to make
compiler for. And then Anders Hejlsberg was also pretty good.

The problem with VMS Pascal for VMS x86-64 is different, because
it is not really a new compiler but bolting different pieces
(frontend, GEM to LLVM, LLVM) together. That sounds simple
but there can be a lot of devils in the details.

Arne