[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[John Dallman]

In article <u61m9k$1q3$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

> Pretty much all of the things we need to implement very safe 
> computing systems were developed in the 1970s and 1980s and 
> prototype capability architectures have been tested and used.  
> Back then, people were not willing to live with the substantial
> performance hit.  Today, that performance hit is even more of a 
> problem because so much code is written so much more poorly.

Smart, patient human beings to write good code have always been expensive.
Poor code is just cheaper. The modern way to deal with the problem is to
use lots of (very cheap) CPU power on fuzz testing and static analysis of
code. 

John