[Info-vax] Native compilers

Bob Eager news0009 at eager.cx
Tue Feb 22 18:01:14 EST 2022


On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:28:33 -0800, John Reagan wrote:

> ~8 vs ~16  Ugh.  Compared to Alpha's 32 and Itanium's 128.
> 
> However, gcc has lived forever in this environment with putting
> variables on the stack and hoping that the cache saves the day.

I'm just writing a simulator for a single register mainframe (OK, it also 
has an index register). Heavily cached stack.

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