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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-05-10 14:23, Simon Clubley wrote:

> Actually, that's not true. "Production-ready" means exactly one thing,
> especially for the kinds of people using VMS:
> 
> that the product in question is considered to be finished and has been
> through such a robust testing process that you are now willing to trust
> the future of your organisation and your organisation's data with it.

I would agree with that definition.

> There's no way that x86-64 VMS, at this point in its lifecycle, can
> meet those criteria, although hopefully that will change rapidly in
> the not too distant future.
> 
> For one thing, x86-64 VMS is still built using non-optimised compilers.
> 
> Any person with any experience elsewhere of the implications of that,
> should be asking how many bugs and other issues will emerge once VMS is
> built using optimised compilers ?

This is utter nonsense. Optimizing code don't suddenly create new bugs.
Unless there are bugs in the toolchain, non-optimized code and optimized 
code will produce the same results, but the amount of time and memory 
required might differ. Or else the bugs are already there in the 
unoptimized code.

   Johnny