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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/10/2023 9:23 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-05-10 14:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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.

Correct code will produce the same result non-optimized and optimized.

In-correct code can produce different results.

Arne