[Info-vax] What would be involved in moving RMS into kernel mode ?

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 8:08:14 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-05-07, Gary Sparkes <mok... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday, May 5, 2023 at 8:17:02?AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> >> It will be nice to get a proper production release of VMS so that we 
> >> know for sure, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen this 
> >> year. :-( 
> >> Simon. 
> > 
> > Isn't that what V9.2 is? :)
> No. Regardless of what the VSI marketing division would have you believe. 
> 
> VMS is not production-ready until it is built using the final optimised 
> compilers.
> Simon. 
> 
Seems like an arbitrary requirement.  Not one that I would use.

Would is surprise you that several pieces of OpenVMS on Alpha and Itanium are
not built with full optimization turned on?  For example, several of the language RTLs
are compiled with /OPTIMIZE=LEVEL=2 instead of the default of LEVEL=4.  It allowed
me to single step thru the code at the instruction level without losing my hair (well, that
didn't work so well however).  I've never bothered to put them back.  For code that spends
most of its time waiting on I/Os to complete, the extra optimization is invisible.