[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[gah4]

On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 2:54:07 PM UTC-7, Scott Dorsey wrote:

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> The Vax is full of all kinds of very cool instructions and if you know 
> all the details about all of them you can do some fine things. But I 
> remember once doing a sequence of multiply and add instruction and then 
> realizing I could use polyd for that and then wondering if it would actually 
> be faster or slower to use polyd on our machine. I looked up in the book 
> and toted up cycles and I am not sure I ever did decide. I wound up just 
> leaving it the way it was. 

I remember stories back to when VAX was new, so 11/780 days,
the POLYD was slower than separate multiply/add instructions.

I never looked at actual times, and don't know at all for later processors.